The illness is a rare form of pneumonia that can only be contracted by inhaling water droplets contaminated by legionella bacteria and can't be spread from person to person.
Health officials repeated yesterday that the outbreak is nearing an end, with no new cases identified since Tuesday.
"There are no new cases, and that suggests this is a one-time event that is now finished," says Allison McGeer, an infectious disease consultant at Mount Sinai Hospital.
The city has recently been on nerves hoping the cases were not related to the deadly strain of Avian Flu that has been moving around the far-east and the fact Toronto is still trying to recover from the public relations disaster SARS did to the economy.
