August 3, 2002 (, Imo June 25), England found the Legionnaires' disease.


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the August 3, Cumbria, northwest England, found that Legionnaires' disease, lobar pneumonia has one person was killed and at least 39 people have been infected.
local health officials said, the lobar number of infections are continuing to rise, I am afraid more than a hundred people or even more. View from the already-confirmed cases, most of the patient's age at 47 years old to 89 years old, has not been found in children infected with the disease. (Lssdjt.com)
This is the largest of lobar pneumonia outbreak in the United Kingdom in recent decades. Legionnaires' disease is a bacterial pneumonia caused by Legionella infection mainly breeding in water storage system, air conditioning and water is wet environment. (TodayinHistory.cn)