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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 to the genus Legionella. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The first reported outbreak was in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1976 during a Legionnaires Convention at the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel .
Legionnaires' disease is the cause of an estimated 2–9% of pneumonia cases that are acquired outside of a hospital. [1] An estimated 8,000 to 18,000 cases a year in the United States require hospitalization. [9] Outbreaks of disease account for a minority of cases.
2023 South Poland Legionellosis outbreak 2023 Poland Legionnaires' disease: 41 [320] [321] African mpox epidemic: 2023–present Worldwide, primarly Africa Mpox: 812 [322] 2023–2024 Bangsamoro measles outbreak: 2023–present Bangsamoro, Philippines Measles: 14 2023–2024 Oropouche virus disease outbreak: 2023–present: Brazil: Oropouche ...
The first major outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease was in 1985 at Staffordshire Hospital, where over 100 patients fell ill with pneumonia-like symptoms, 28 of which died. An investigation traced ...
The 1976 Legionnaires' disease outbreak, occurring in the late summer in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States at an annual American Legion convention, was the first occasion in which a cluster of a particular type of pneumonia cases were determined to be caused by the Legionella pneumophila bacteria. Previous outbreaks were retroactively ...
With the death toll continuing to rise in New York City from Legionnaires' disease, people are freaking out. And while there is a lot of speculation and information out there, we wanted to break ...
A Legionnaires' disease outbreak in a New Hampshire town that has sickened five people has been traced to contaminated water from a cooling tower. 5 people with Legionnaires' disease exposed ...
2014 enterovirus D68 outbreak; 2015 Bronx Legionnaires' disease outbreaks; 2015 United States E. coli outbreak; 2015 United States H5N2 outbreak; 2016 United States Elizabethkingia outbreak; 2017–2018 United States flu season; 2018 United States adenovirus outbreak; 2019 New York measles outbreak; 2019 Pacific Northwest measles outbreak