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Article: Fighting off Legionnaires' disease.(FOCUS: HEALTH CARE MARKET)
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- Air Conditioning, Heating & Refrigeration News
- Article date:
- November 3, 2008
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More than 30 years ago, a sinister disease of unknown origin created a panic in Philadelphia. Several people attending an American Legion's convention in Philadelphia in late July 1976 became severely ill with flu-like symptoms and soaring temperatures. In the end, 34 people died from this mysterious disease.
Originally, no known cause could be found, and the thought of biological warfare entered the minds of some Americans who worried for their safety. After six months of painstaking research, epidemiologists and laboratory scientists discovered that the illness was not man-made. Instead, it was caused by a type of bacteria, named Legionella.
Legionella ...