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Article: Delaware investigates Legionnaires' disease
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- Charleston Daily Mail
- Article date:
- July 11, 2003
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DOVER, Del. - Delaware's Division of Public Health is
investigating 12 cases of Legionnaires' disease, including two
fatalities, in the state between May 29 and July 5.
The cases do not appear to be linked, but they are part of an
increase in Legionnaires' disease across the south Atlantic region
this year, according to a statement from the agency.
Legionnaires' disease is a form of pneumonia caused by bacteria.
People contract the illness after having inhaled mists from an
infected water source, such as cooling towers and evaporative
condensers of large air conditioning systems, whirlpool spas and
showers.
Of the 12 individuals affected so far this year in Delaware, seven
lived in New ...