Beyond Microbiological Analysis: The Essential Role of Risk Assessment in Travel-Associated Legionnaires' Disease Outbreak Investigations.

ABSTRACT: Between April and May 2025, an outbreak of travel-associated Legionnaires' disease (TALD) occurred, involving six cases at a hotel in Crete, Greece. Including two cases reported in 2023 and two additional cases from 2016 to 2017, ten cases were associated with this accommodation site. All TALD cases were reported by the European Legionnaires' Disease Surveillance Network (ELDSNet). In compliance with the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) surveillance and investigation protocols for hotels associated with the patient's stay, local public health authorities conducted on-site inspections at the hotel by collecting water samples and performing risk assessments, while simultaneously recording the required epidemiological, environmental, and physicochemical data. A total

SUBMITTER: Papadakis A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12567099 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature