A 61-year-old Kowloon City woman has been hospitalised with Legionnaires' disease, the Centre for Health Protection said today.

She came down with a fever, chills, rigor, exhaustion and chest pain on March 1 and was admitted to Kwong Wah Hospital on March 5. She had been on the Mainland February 19 to 22. She is now stable.

This was the fifth case of Legionnaires' disease this year, while 37 cases were reported last year.