More affected by Legionnaire's disease

The fatal outbreak of Legionnaire’s disease in Quebec City has claimed two more lives.

According to the Gazette, the bacterial infection has infected at least 104 people and eight have died.

The regional director of public health Francois Desbiens said on Sunday that the 89 cooling towers believed to be behind the outbreak have been disinfected.

Health minister Yves Bolduc has stated that it was up to the government in 1997 when the first outbreak of the disease killed one person to act. The report commissioned in ’97 called for the creation of a registry of buildings that use cooling towers in their ventilation systems.

This is the worst outbreak of Legionnaire’s disease in Canada in over 25 years.