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Respiratory Microbe Could Cause Epidemics

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, November 1st, 1999

In 1976, the sudden appearance of a still unknown respiratory microbe took the medical world by surprise when American legionnaires who had gathered in a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, hotel a few weeks earlier succumbed in large numbers all over the country to an unexplained form of pneumonia.

Since then, the bacterium involved has been identified and named, and the highly dangerous Legionella is now being systematically tracked down in air conditioning and humidification systems.

Lung experts don't want to be caught out a second time. This is why in Madrid, at the 9th meeting of the European Respiratory Society, they warned their fellow...

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