Legionnarie’s link with screen wash bottles.

The Health Protection Agency has called for more research to be done into a possible link between Legionnaire’s Disease and motorists who don’t use additives in thier vehicle screen wash bottles. This comes after a preliminary study suggested that there is a strong association between the disease and drivers who use just water in their wash bottles. A further study is now needed to see if adding screenwash solutions to water in the wash bottle can kill the bacteria which cause the disease and so reduce the risk.

A separate investigation showed that 1 in 5 cars that were tested with no screen wash aditive in the bottle did contain the Legionella bacteria whereas no car with screen wash aditive was found to have the bacteria present.