“One patient is recovering and possibly discharged, another is stable, and a third patient is in a critical condition,” a New South Wales Health spokeswoman, Dr Vicky Sheppeard, said in Sydney on Wednesday.
The trio have each spent time in a pocket of the city bordered by Market, George, King and Kent streets since Anzac Day. “All three people work in that part of the city and they do visit there regularly,” Sheppeard said.
“All of these people had underlying conditions that disposed them to catching Legionnaires’ disease.”
Cancer patients, smokers, people with severe immune diseases or who are undergoing immunosuppressive treatments are all susceptible to the disease, Sheppeard said.