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Table 1 Case-fatality ratios for some Legionnaires’disease outbreaks in Spain

From: New approach to environmental investigation of an explosive legionnaires´ disease outbreak in Spain: early identification of potential risk sources by rapid Legionella spp immunosensing technique

Year

City

Province

no. confirmed cases

Fatality (%)

1973

Benidorm

Alicante

89

3.3

1983

Zaragoza

Zaragoza

81

7.4

1988

Barcelona

Barcelona

56

12.5

1991

Almuñecar

Granada

91

2.2

1996

Alcalá de Henares

Madrid

224

4.0

1999–2000

Alcoy

Alicante

177

6.2

2000

Barcelona

Barcelona

54

4.0

2001

Murcia

Murcia

449

1.1

2002

Mataró

Barcelona

151

1.4

2004

Zaragoza

Zaragoza

32

21.9

2005

Vic

Barcelona

55

5.5

2006

Pamplona

Navarra

146

0.0

2010

Madrid

Madrid

47

12.8

2012

Móstoles

Madrid

63

3.2

2014

Sabadell-Ripollet

Barcelona

48

20.8

2015–2016

Manzanares

Ciudad Real

277

1.4