Cases of legionnaires in Edinburgh rise to 80 Officials said the majority of the sufferers are male, with ages ranging from 33 to 76. Robert Air, 56, from the Seafield area of the city, died from the disease on Tuesday and experts have not ruled out the possibility of further deaths. Mr Air, a labourer and father of two, was sent home from work after becoming ill and died in hospital less than 24 hours after being admitted. His brother Ronald, 55, said: "We're all really shocked. He was my buddy as well as my brother. It was all over in 24 hours, it was too quick. I keep thinking if he had gone to hospital sooner could something have been done? Mr Air's partner Rena added: "I don't want to remember him, I just want him back." While the total number of confirmed cases has risen by eight, two suspected cases have been found not to be suffering from the disease. Most of the patients are being treated in the capital but one patient is being treated in the north of England, with two being treated in Tayside, one in Lanarkshire and one in Glasgow. Officials said that at this stage all cases were considered to be linked to the Edinburgh outbreak. The Health and Safety Executive and Edinburgh City Council are continuing their investigations into the possible source of the outbreak. Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland's Health Minister said: "Although there has been a rise in the number of confirmed cases, it is reassuring to see that the number of suspected cases is decreasing and that 16 people have now been discharged from hospital." On Friday she emphasised that in issuing the improvement notice at the distillery, the HSE did not believe there was any immediate risk to workers or members of the public. Ms Sturgeon also said it could not be assumed that the tower is the source of the outbreak, with investigations into all of the other towers in the area continuing. The distillery has been one of the prime suspects as the potential source of Scotland's biggest outbreak of the disease since an emergency team was set up to tackle the incident on Sunday. People are thought to have contracted the disease after legionella bacteria were released from a cooling tower in a plume that drifted across the Gorgie, Dairy and Saughton areas of the Scottish capital.