A series of mysterious deaths in St. Brévin-les-Pins

Two mentally handicapped persons interned in the public medical and social "The Coast", in Saint-Brévin-les-Pins (Loire-Atlantique), died of a respiratory infection, one week apart. A third is hospitalized with the same symptoms. The origin of the disease remains unknown. A few metres from the Loire estuary, the public medical-social "The Coast" is in shock. In just over a week, four of its residents were hospitalized for a respiratory infection unknown. Two have died, one is still hospitalized. The hotel welcomes 393 adults with disabilities, but the victims were all housed in a pavilion, which contains about thirty people. He was placed in quarantine. The details of Anne Patinec, special correspondent in Saint-Nazaire (1'10 ") The two deceased victims were a man and a woman, mentally disabled, aged 40 to 50 years. The first died Feb. 24 in the night are able to transfer to the hospital. The second fell ill five days later, on February 29, and died Sunday at a hospital in Saint-Nazaire. The case of the flu or legionellosis being evacuated, only one only certainty, the symptoms: fever, intense and erratic, followed by a state of respiratory distress. The patient remains hospitalized as described by the state director of the institution. The investigation was entrusted to the DDASS de Loire-Atlantique.