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. 1994 Jul 15;43(27):491-3.

Legionnaires' disease associated with cooling towers--Massachusetts, Michigan, and Rhode Island, 1993

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
  • PMID: 8022395

Legionnaires' disease associated with cooling towers--Massachusetts, Michigan, and Rhode Island, 1993

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. .

Abstract

From July through October 1993, outbreaks of Legionnaires' disease (LD) were reported from communities in Massachusetts and Rhode Island and from a state prison in Michigan. Cooling towers (CTs) were identified as the source of all three outbreaks. This report summarizes investigations by state and local health officials and CDC and efforts to control these outbreaks.

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