They found Legionnaries’ disease in a teaching hospital in NYC

“Legionnaires’ disease is a bacterial infection with pneumonia-like symptoms that first became widely known after a 1976 outbreak killed 34 people attending an American Legion convention in Philadelphia. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 8,000 to 18,000 people contract the disease each year in the United States, and it is rarely fatal except for people with weakened immune systems.”

It’s one of those diseases that you study about in medical school, but rarely see in real life.

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