legionnaire's

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legionnaire's, legionnaires' disease

(Medicine / Pathology) a serious, sometimes fatal, infection, caused by the bacterium Legionella pneumophila, which has symptoms similar to those of pneumonia: believed to be spread by inhalation of contaminated water vapour from showers and air-conditioning plants

[after the outbreak at a meeting of the American Legion at Philadelphia in 1976]

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