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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 ...
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. [3]
The Bellevue-Stratford Hotel is a landmark building at 200 S. Broad Street at the corner of Walnut Street in Center City Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.Constructed in 1904 and expanded to its present size in 1912, it has continued as a well-known institution for more than a century and is still widely known by that original, historic name.
Legionnaires' disease is a form of atypical ... disease acquired its name in July 1976, ... American Legion at the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel in Philadelphia.
A man told a TV station his 71-year-old wife died of the disease after staying at the hotel. Two diagnosed with Legionnaires’ disease after hotel stay, NH officials say. One died
According to DHSS, the three people were diagnosed within 14 days of their stay. Individuals can contract Legionnaires' disease, a serious type of pneumonia, by breathing in small water droplets ...
Legionella bacteria, is commonly found in water and can cause a serious type of lung infection - Here’s everything we know about the disease
1976 Philadelphia Legionnaires' disease outbreak; 1976 swine flu outbreak; 1987 Carroll County cryptosporidiosis outbreak; 1990–1991 Philadelphia measles outbreak; 1993 Four Corners hantavirus outbreak; 1992–1993 Jack in the Box E. coli outbreak; 1993 Milwaukee cryptosporidiosis outbreak; 1996 Odwalla E. coli outbreak