CFB Kingston employee contracts Legionnaires disease at base warehouse – Kingston | 24CA News

It was early December final yr that it grew to become recognized {that a} CFB Kingston worker had contracted Legionnaires illness.

Legionella is a micro organism that’s generally present in water.

Stagnant water is among the components that may present circumstances for the micro organism to develop and if it will get into the air, Legionnaires illness, a lung an infection, is a threat.

“Most people that are young and healthy with an intact immune system have no symptoms whatsoever, or if they do, very minor respiratory pneumonia-like symptoms and respond to regular treatments,” stated CFB Kingston’s base surgeon Maj. Jojo Jiang.

It’s believed the worker contracted the illness in a virtually 100-year-old warehouse on the bottom.

CFB Kingston Base Commander Col. Sonny Hatton says as quickly because the micro organism was detected within the warehouse, it was closed.

“We did super chlorinate the building, we tried to remediate the legionella that was found and the tests showed that there was still some legionella which is why we’ve taken the measures that we have,” stated Col. Hatton.

Anyone that does should enter the warehouse is required to put on an N-95 masks.

A complete of six workers have been relocated, 4 from the warehouse and two others in one other constructing the place proactive testing was performed.

“There was one other building that did test positive for legionella and that is the Vimy Officers Mess and that is currently closed and undergoing super chlorination as we speak,” Hatton informed Global Kingston.

The base commander says there is no such thing as a threat to the general public and whereas cleanup efforts proceed on the Vimy Officers Mess, the warehouse is slated for demolition.

A date for the demolition hasn’t been set presently.

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