Cause of Legionnaires’ disease identified by CDC teams
Atlanta scientists isolated a primitive bacteria like organism linked to the Philadelphia outbreak that claimed 29 lives last summer. The discovery points researchers to a culprit but leaves transmission and full cause unresolved as work continues at the Center for Disease Control and related labs.
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