How to Use Legionnaires' disease in a Sentence

Legionnaires' disease

noun
  • What are the long-term effects of Legionnaires' disease?
    — Chris Sims, Louisville Courier Journal, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Legionnaires' disease is not spread from person to person.
    — Carly Sauvageau, USA Today, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Here is what to know on Legionnaires' disease, and the current outbreak.
    — Amethyst Martinez, USA Today, 6 July 2026
  • How does Legionnaires' disease spread?
    — Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 21 Aug. 2025
  • What are the symptoms of Legionnaires' disease?
    — Alice Park, Time, 5 Aug. 2025
  • What are the symptoms of Legionnaires' disease?
    — Carly Sauvageau, USA Today, 29 Apr. 2026
  • What are the symptoms of Legionnaires' disease?
    — Janet Loehrke, USA Today, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Is there a Legionnaires' disease outbreak?
    — Melina Khan, USA Today, 6 Aug. 2025
  • What are Legionnaires' disease symptoms?
    — Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Caused by bacteria, Legionnaires' disease is a type of pneumonia.
    — Jamie L. Lareau, Freep.com, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Cooling towers are often a source of Legionnaires' disease outbreaks because they’re filled with water.
    — Cara Lynn Shultz, PEOPLE, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Has there ever been a Legionnaires' disease outbreak in Tennessee?
    — Diana Leyva, Nashville Tennessean, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Legionnaires' disease is a form of pneumonia caused by the bacteria Legionella.
    — Alice Park, Time, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Legionnaires' disease can be treated with antibiotics, and most healthy people who get infected usually get better.
    — Melina Khan, USA Today, 6 Aug. 2025
  • The fatality rate among people with Legionnaires' disease is about 10%.
    — Christina Hall, Freep.com, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Legionnaires' disease causes a serious form of pneumonia.
    — Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 6 Aug. 2025
  • About 1 out of every 10 people who get sick with Legionnaires' disease may die because of complications from the illness.
    — Janet Loehrke, USA Today, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Nearly 60 people have become sick and two have died in an outbreak of Legionnaires' disease in New York City.
    — Alice Park, Time, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Most people exposed to the bacteria don’t develop Legionnaires' disease.
    — Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 21 Aug. 2025
  • At least 14 cases of Legionnaires' disease have been reported in central Florida.
    — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 5 Dec. 2025
  • Legionnaires' disease is a severe form of pneumonia and is caused by inhaling mist containing Legionella bacteria.
    — Diana Leyva, Nashville Tennessean, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Six cases of Legionnaires' disease have been reported at Christ Hospital since October, and three of those people died.
    — Randy Tucker, Cincinnati Enquirer, 23 Dec. 2025
  • Since July 25, at least 67 people in five zip codes have inhaled that bacteria, and developed what's called Legionnaires' disease.
    — Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 6 Aug. 2025
  • People can get Legionnaires' disease by breathing in mist containing Legionella bacteria.
    — Diana Leyva, Nashville Tennessean, 5 Aug. 2025
  • The fatality rate among people with Legionnaires' disease is about 10%, according to the CDC.
    — Christina Hall, Freep.com, 5 Dec. 2025
  • The best way to prevent Legionnaires' disease, which is a waterborne illness, is by cleaning pipes and devices that use water, according to the CDC.
    — Melina Khan, USA Today, 6 Aug. 2025
  • Is Legionnaires' disease highly contagious?
    — Chris Sims, Louisville Courier Journal, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Health officials in New York City have been fighting several Legionnaires' disease cases since late July.
    — Janet Loehrke, USA Today, 22 Aug. 2025
  • At Glen Cove Hospital, he was diagnosed with Legionnaires' disease, a form of pneumonia caused by bacteria that grow in moist conditions.
    — Wendy Grossman Kantor, People.com, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Legionnaires' disease is a severe pneumonia caused by a type of bacteria called Legionella, which grows in warm water, according to the CDC.
    — Melina Khan, USA Today, 5 Aug. 2025

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