legionnaires' disease


Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
legionnaires' disease
noun a form of bacterial pneumonia spread chiefly in water droplets through air conditioning and similar systems.
– origin 1976 (identified after an outbreak at an American Legion meeting).
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