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Legionnaires' Disease: The Cooling Tower Killer - Halloween Short #263
In this spooky Halloween short podcast episode, Bryan tells the story of the cooling tower killer: Legionnaires' disease.
In the summer of 1976, the nation celebrated its bicentennial anniversary. The American Legion was holding its 58th annual convention at the Bellevue Stratford Hotel in Philadelphia, PA. In the days following the convention, doctors in Philadelphia started noticing dozens of Legionnaires in their hospitals with high fevers, chills, coughs, and difficulty breathing. Their symptoms resembled those of pneumonia, but patients deteriorated quickly, and antibiotics didn't work…
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