€1m to compensate 1999 legionnaires disease victims
Friday 23 April 2010
Some 140 victims of the 1999 outbreak of legionnaires disease which killed at least 32 people in the Netherlands are to share a €1m compensation package, Trouw reports on Friday.
In total 242 people become ill in the outbreak, which was traced to an outdoor whirlpool bath at a garden show in Bovenkarspel, Noord-Holland.
People who lost income because they were unable to work get the maximum payout of €75,000. Most of the victims were pensioners and will get less, Trouw says.
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