legionnaires' disease
Noun
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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 (synset 114172316)is a type of: lobar pneumonia - pneumonia affecting one or more lobes of the lung; commonly due to streptococcal infection
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