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Symptoms of Legionella Pneumonia

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Summary: The symptoms of legionella pneumonia are high fever, chills, cough, headaches and muscles aches. Learn how legionella pneumonia bacteria are spread with information from a nurse and respiratory care practitioner in this free video on legionella pneumonia symptoms.

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Nancy Bennett is a nurse and respiratory care practitioner located in Central Florida. She has a degree in respiratory therapy from the University of Virginia. She has experience...read more

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"Symptoms of Legionella pneumonia. It's caused by a bacteria, it presents itself as high fever, chills, cough, headaches and muscle aches. Legionnaire's disease is not spread by person to person, it's spread by a contamination of water droplets with the bacteria in it so it could easily come from an aerosol which is water droplets of small size and it can be inhaled and the person could pickup the bacteria from inhaling it. Normally you will see it in large plants, physical plants where there are large air conditions and hot water fountains and things like that that have a large water supply and it could be found there. But it's not transferable from person to person, it's contaminated water droplets."

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