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Legionnaires Disease Mystery Prompts Bold Probes At Convention
Investigators scour the convention site and hospitality venues for a source of a baffling pneumonia like illness. Dr William Parkin and others question attendees while hundreds of legionnaires who did not fall ill are surveyed. Deaths rose to six before cases slowed as CDC and state labs search for the pathogen or toxin behind the epidemic.
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Wiliam Parkin
Bachman
Ray Brennan
Athens
New York
Legion
William Baird
Bloomsburg
Frank Aven
Clearfield
Francis Grove
Altoona
Charles Chamberlain
Chambersburg
Ernest, Campbell
Campbell
Julius Gagginata
Republic
Williamsport
William Ford
Office of
Harrisburg
Ford
William Schrack
Federal Center For Disease Control
CDC
Atlanta
Milton J Shapp
Buchman
FBI
David Sencer
Pennsylvania
Sencer
St Elizabeth's Hospital
Washington