Legionnaire’s disease, a waterborne bacterial infection that got its name after an outbreak at a large American Legion gathering in Philadelphia just over 40 years ago, had been near elimination across much of the world […]
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We Need A Safe ‘Breathing Water’ Act
By Charles Haas, PhD Forty years ago next month, more than 200 cases of Legionnaires’ disease, resulting in 29 deaths, occurred at hotel hosting an American Legion conference in Philadelphia — giving the disease its […]