Two cases of severe pneumonia after the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake

• Váldodahkkit: Shigeatu Endo (Dahkki), Kohei Yamauchii (Dahkki), Toshihide Nakadate (Dahkki), Yutaka Nakamura (Dahkki)
• Materiálatiipa: Girji
• Almmustuhtton: World Health Organization Regional Office for the Western Pacific, 2012-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Fáttát: article
• Liŋkkat: Connect to this object online.

In 2011, during the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami, 90% of victims died from drowning. We report on two tsunami survivors with severe pneumonia potentially caused by Legionella pneumophila. Both victims aspirated a large quantity of contaminated water; sand, mud and a variety of microbes we...