Disease kills 4
Four people have died and 40 others are in hospital in Madrid after having contracted “legionnaire’s disease,” the Madrid newspaper “fii Pais” has-reported. ‘M ' A child' died of the disease pi® last week. Two other chil-Jf; dren and an adult in Madrid f had also died, it said. “Le- t gionnaire’s ; disease” is a / ■ respiratory infection that first appeared in 1976 during '• an American Legion conven- f ’ tion in Philadelphia. The in- 1 fection has already caused ’ “ several deaths among hotel i.’_ ' guests in some Spanish tour- li.f ist centres—Madrid.?
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Press, 13 May 1981, Page 8
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