Add screenwash or risk contracting Legionnaires' disease

wanderer


Joined: 05/02/2009
Posts: 1653

Message Posted:
15/06/2010 08:02

Motorists risk catching legionnaires’ disease from the water in windscreen wash bottles, the Government’s health experts are warning.

As many as 20 per cent of cases of the bacterial infection are linked to the water used to clean car windows, they say.

And professional drivers are five times more likely to be infected with the bug, which thrives in warm, stagnant water and causes a potentially fatal lung infection.







Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1286423/Windscreen-water-cause-cases-potentially-fatal-Legionnaires-disease.html#ixzz0qtXyrEX9

Groucho



Joined: 26/04/2008
Posts: 7993

Message Posted:
15/06/2010 08:05

No wonder the garages chart £'s to fill up your washer bottle in the UK... you just never knew it was a health precaution.