Legionnaires Disease facts
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The Playboy Mansion's Hot Tub once spawned a Legionnaires' disease outbreak.
how legionnaires disease is transmitted?
20% of Legionnaires disease in the UK is caused by people using water instead of windshield washing fluid.
What causes legionnaires disease?
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what's legionnaires disease?
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Not only did Flint, MI keep quiet about their toxic lead pipes leeching into the water but also the deadly Legionnaires' disease that quickly spread after putting in different pipes
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Legionnaires disease was named such when dozens of attendees of a convention in 1976 became ill and died. The source was traced to a hotel in Philadelphia where an American Legion convention was held some time earlier.
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In Philadelphia on July 1976 there was a mysterious deadly disease that infected 200 and killed 29. The CDC discovered that the source of this disease came from four veterans that attended an American Legion convention and thus named the mystery bug Legionnaire's Disease.
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Legionnaires' disease was so named after the first recognized outbreak at a hotel used for an American Legion convention in Philadelphia
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In 2005 a smokestack scrubber became infected with bacteria. As the smoke was cleaned by the scrubber, the bacteria was carried into the atmosphere by the smoke and lead to an outbreak of Legionnaires' Disease around the factory.
