What is a Legionnaires disease?

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"Answer: Legionnaires' disease, which is also known as Legionellosis, is a form of pneumonia. It is often called Legionnaires' disease because the first known outbreak occurred in the Bellevue Stratford Hotel that was hosting a convention of the Pennsylvania Department of the American Legion. In that outbreak, approximately 221 people contracted this previously unknown type of bacterial pneumonia, and 34 people died. The source of the bacterium was found to be contaminated water used to cool the air in the hotel's air conditioning system."

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it's caused by legionella

It is a form of pneumonia caused by a bacterium first identified as a result of an epidemic that hit an American Legion convention in Philadelphia in the mid-1970's.

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