Croats close their hotels, threatened deadly bacteria

Hotel Corinth and left the staff and tourists. Inspectors and experts examined the places where it may possibly hide bacteria Legionella.

Hotel "Corinthia" in Baska on the island preventive incarcerated on suspicion of the presence of Legionella, and will open when the relevant departments to do a review system in the hotel, we learned Sunday from the company Valamar Riviera, within which operates BAŠĆANSKA hotel.

The building, along with the neighboring hotels, "Zvonimir", "Atrium Residence", "Villa Adria" and camp Zablace, with which it shares the central heating system, closed after the European center for surveillance and monitoring of Legionnaires' disease tipped the Croatian Institute for Public zdravastvo (CIPH) the possible presence of Legionella.

Such reports, as standard procedure, came after suspected to be infected with the bacteria Legionella German tourist who was in the hotel "Corinthia" stayed in mid April.Control of the hotel, facilities for water heating and plumbing and air conditioning installations, and sanitary-epidemiological survey performed by Institute for Public Health of Primorje-Gorski Kotar County Rijeka.

This is not an unusual situation, and there is no room for panic, says the Rijeka Teaching Institute for Public Health.

• 15 May, 2016
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