Luxury Dubai hotel 'not source' of fatal Legionnaires' outbreak
Detailed laboratory tests found no Legionnaires’ bacteria in a five-star hotel in Dubai where three guests recently became ill with the disease, an official said today.
One of the guests, British cricket statistician and broadcaster Bill Frindall, later died.
The official, Hussein Nasser Lootah, said 24 water samples from the hotel complex – the Westin Dubai Mina Seyahi Beach Resort & Marina Westin – proved “beyond doubt” that none of the guests contracted “the disease in Dubai”.
Mr Lootah did not explain how the tests were conclusive.
The hotel operator earlier confirmed that the three guests who fell ill included 69-year-old Mr Frindall who died on Friday after returning to England.
