The 1976 Legionnaires' disease outbreak, occurring in the late summer in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States was the first occasion in which a cluster...
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This is a list of Legionnaires' disease outbreaks; Legionnaire's is a potentially fatal infectious disease caused by gram negative, aerobic bacteria belonging...
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Legionella. Legionnaires' disease also became a prominent historical example of an emerging infectious disease. Outbreaks of Legionnaires' disease receive...
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pandemic 1918-19's Spanish flu 2009 swine flu pandemic 1976 Philadelphia Legionnaires' disease outbreak "1976 Swine Flu Vaccination Program". www.cdc.gov. Sencer...
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plague outbreak 1924–1925 Minnesota smallpox epidemic 1947 New York City smallpox outbreak 1962-1965 rubella epidemic 1976 Philadelphia Legionnaires' disease...
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coverage of the 1976 Philadelphia Legionnaires' disease outbreak and the first article in a newspaper to break the story of the then-new disease of HIV/AIDS...
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shown by individual outbreaks, such as the Plague of Justinian (first pandemic) and the Black Death (second pandemic). Infectious diseases with high prevalence...
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Legionella (category Bacterial diseases)
caused by Legionella) including a pneumonia-type illness called Legionnaires' disease and a mild flu-like illness called Pontiac fever. Legionella may...
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2016). "Legionnaires' disease". Lancet. 387 (10016): 376–85. doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(15)60078-2. PMID 26231463. S2CID 28047369. A Large Outbreak of Legionnaires’...
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and mild flu symptoms, but not pneumonia. After the 1976 Legionnaires' outbreak in Philadelphia, the Michigan health department re-examined blood samples...
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