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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 ...
1976 Philadelphia Legionnaires' disease outbreak: Air conditioning: 221: 34: 15.4%: This was the first recognized outbreak of legionellosis, although earlier cases of legionellosis were later discovered to have occurred as far back as 1947. The Philadelphia outbreak, however, had the highest death rate. [7] [8] [9] 1978: Memphis, Tennessee ...
1793 Philadelphia yellow fever epidemic; 1976 Philadelphia Legionnaires' disease outbreak; 1990–1991 Philadelphia measles outbreak; C.
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Three people are dead after a Legionnaire's disease outbreak at a New York assisted living facility, officials announced Thursday.. A cluster of cases at Peregrine Senior Living Facility in Albany ...
This was the second-deadliest outbreak since the 1976 outbreak and possibly the deadliest, as several people were buried before Legionnaires' disease had been diagnosed. [52] The world's largest outbreak of Legionnaires' disease happened in July 2001, with people appearing at the hospital on 7 July, in Murcia, Spain. More than 800 suspected ...
Legionnaires disease gained globally recognition after an outbreak in 1976 at a hotel in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The causative agent of the outbreak was L. pneumophila , which had contaminated the hotel's air conditioning water supply, allowing the microbe to be dispersed within the hotel's environment.