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Legionnaires' caught from compost

Sep 3 2010

A hidden danger in the garden has been highlighted by the case of a man who contracted Legionnaires' disease from handling compost.

Doctors discovered that the 67-year-old man was infected through a cut in his hand.

Reporting the "rare" incident in The Lancet medical journal, they said compost was known to harbour Legionnaires' bugs.

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