Health officers are in search of individuals who could have been on the Zen Day Spa in Richmond over the previous two weeks, which was visited by three individuals — together with two who died final week — who just lately contracted Legionnaires’ illness.

Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors Chairperson John Gioia, who represents Richmond on the board, stated Monday that it’s important for anybody who visited the spa come ahead instantly.

Gioia can also be calling on Contra Costa Health to analyze and establish unpermitted spas all through the county. He stated Zen Day Spa did not have the required county environmental well being allow from the well being division and he is ready to seek out out if it had a required use allow from the City of Richmond.

“Right now, the emphasis is tracking down people who were there the past two weeks,” Gioia stated. “It’s a bit like contact tracing.”

The spa was closed Friday after two individuals died on Thursday and Friday. Health officers stated each  individuals had visited the spa, at 12230 San Pablo Ave., simply days earlier than getting sick.

A 3rd particular person, who used the jacuzzi on the spa in June, has recovered from the illness.

Gioia stated officers are additionally trying on the constructing’s air flow system and whether or not the micro organism — which is normally transmitted by air — might have unfold into two adjoining companies.

Health officers are nonetheless awaiting lab take a look at outcomes to verify whether or not the spa was certainly the supply of transmission.

The micro organism is discovered pure freshwater sources equivalent to lakes and streams and might trigger a extreme type of pneumonia when individuals breathe in contaminated water droplets, equivalent to mist in a scorching tub or through the usage of hoses, in keeping with CCH.

Legionnaires’ illness does not sometimes unfold from individual to individual and is treatable with antibiotics. Seniors, people who smoke, persistent lung illness sufferers and different immunocompromised people are at increased danger of Legionnaires’ illness.

Symptoms embrace shortness of breath, fever, chills and cough.

Anyone who visited the Zen Day Spa over the previous two weeks ought to contact the Contra Costa Health’s Communicable Disease Division at (925) 313-6740.