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Two Cases of Legionnaires' Disease in Newborns After Water Births — Arizona, 2016.
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Article
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0149-2195
Abstract
The article discusses surveillance report from the Medical Electronic Disease Surveillance Intelligence System (MEDSIS) which shows the number of cases of Legionnaires' disease. It mentions that Legionnaires' disease is a severe and fatal disease characterized by fever, myalgia, cough and clinical or radiographic pneumonia which is caused by inhaling or aspirating small droplets of water containing Legionella bacteria.