The report of a multi-agency investigation into the outbreak of Legionnaires’ Disease that occurred in south-west Edinburgh in the summer of 2012 has been published by NHS Lothian health board [1].
The outbreak was declared on Sunday, 3 June 2012, at which time five confirmed cases suggestive of a developing cluster had been notified. A ‘problem assessment group’ was converted, the same day, into a full incident management team (IMT), triggering a range of epidemiological, microbiological, environmental and meteorological investigations that are described comprehensively in the outbreak investigation report.