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While Legionella bacteria occur naturally in freshwater environments, they primarily cause disease after growing in certain human-made water systems that aerosolize water. Legionnaires’ disease, a severe type of pneumonia was so named in 1976 after a Pennsylvania outbreak of a mystery illness that sickened over 200 and killed 34 in two weeks. (Defense Health Agency-Public Health graphic illustration by Rachel Stershic)
| Date Taken: | 01.13.2025 |
| Date Posted: | 03.10.2025 14:19 |
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