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Legionnaires' disease

British pronunciation/lˌiːdʒənˈeəz dɪzˈiːz/
American pronunciation/lˌiːdʒənˈɛɹz dɪzˈiːz/
Legionnaires' disease
[NOUN]
1

acute (sometimes fatal) lobar pneumonia caused by bacteria of a kind first recognized after an outbreak of the disease at an American Legion convention in Philadelphia in 1976; characterized by fever and muscle and chest pain and headache and chills and a dry cough

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