Legionnaires Disease Research Paper

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Legionnaires Disease
“Legionnaires’ disease is a bacterial infection caused primarily by the species Legionella pneumophila, it was initially recognized as the cause of a 1976 outbreak of respiratory disease outbreak in Philadelphia. Legionellosis infection occurs after persons have breathed mists that come from a water source. The most recent outbreak of Legionnaires’disease is in New York City, in the Bronx, with a total of ten deaths and more than one hundred outbreaks, which were traced to a cooling tower, deaths have also been reported in Michigan, and Ohio.
The Economics of Natural and Human Resources in Agriculture are dependent on water, according to Underhill (2015). “Legionnaires is associated a high mortality rate. The authors collected …show more content…

Known host and risk factors for legionellosis are smoking, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, diabetes, immune system compromise, older age fifty years or older and had a transplant or has received chemotherapy. Environmental risk factors associated with legionellosis outbreaks are travel, residence in a health care facility, and proximity to cooling towers, whirlpool spas, decorative fountains, and grocery produce misters. However, only partial studies have been prepared concerning socioeconomic and occupational risk factors for community-acquired cases; some studies have recognized driving as a likely occupational risk factor. To define the epidemiology of Legionnaires’ disease in New York, New York, researchers analyzed surveillance data for 2002–2011. In addition to overall incidence, they measured the relations between acquisition of Legionella infection and socioeconomic and occupational group.”
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