Article: Agency: 50 guests may have contracted Legionnaire's Disease at Swedish spa


AP Worldstream
02-02-2005
Dateline: STOCKHOLM, Sweden
Some 50 guests at a spa in central Sweden may have come down with the bacteria that causes Legionnaire's Disease, officials said Wednesday, but official results weren't expected until Friday.

The guests were staying at the Dalecarlia Hotel in Taellberg in Dalarna, some 220 kilometers (138 miles) north of the capital, Stockholm, when they fell ill late last week.

Olle Rydberg, a state environmental inspector, said the guests, all of whom were there for a company-sponsored seminar, had been in the hotel's whirlpool during their stay.

"We have taken samples of the water and tested some of the patients, but the results will not be known until ...

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