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legionnaires’ disease

le·gion·naires' dis·ease


noun 
Definition:
 
bacterial pneumonia: a virulent and sometimes fatal form of pneumonia caused by a bacterium and spread mainly by the water droplets in air conditioning systems

[< its first recognized occurrence at an American Legion convention in Philadelphia in 1976]
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