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According to Jornal de Notícias, the confusion arose from the attribution of the phrase “DGS asks to close the car windows on the A28” to the general director of Health, Graça Freitas, by the SIC.
Instead, says the same newspaper, the suggestion was made by a researcher from the Institute of Public Health of the University of Porto, Teresa Leão, who also participated in this television work. However, the information to pass in the footer would have wrongly attributed its authorship to Graça Freitas,
The mention of the A28 is due to the fact that it circulates through the municipalities where an outbreak of ‘legionella’ appeared.
The number of deaths from the ‘legionella’ outbreak that is affecting the municipalities of Vila do Conde, Póvoa de Varzim and Matosinhos, in the Porto district, rose to six today, a source from the Regional Health Administration told Lusa (ARS). From North.
In total, and according to an ARS / North source, 56 cases of ‘legionella’ have been registered since the beginning of the month in regions of the North region, with the origin of the outbreak still to be determined.
Legionnaires’ disease, caused by the bacteria ‘Legionella pneumophila’, is contracted by inhaling contaminated water vapor droplets (aerosols) so small that they carry the bacteria to the lungs, depositing it in the lung alveoli.
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