A case was made in Madeira of a Madeiran citizen with Legionnaires disease.
Following the occurrence, of a Madeiran citizen who spent the night in a hotel establishment in the municipality of Porto Moniz, the Regional Health Directorate began an epidemiological and environmental investigation that included the health inspection of the building, equipment and sampling of water from the building network, in which the bacterium Legionella pneumophila serogroup 1 was detected .
In view of this fact, the Regional Health Directorate determined the immediate closure of the said hotel establishment, which will be lifted as soon as it no longer presents a risk to public health.