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标题：Legionnaire’s disease, weather and climate
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作者：Ryota Sakamoto
期刊名称：Bulletin of the World Health Organization
印刷版ISSN：0042-9686
出版年度：2015
卷号：93
期号：6
页码：435-436
DOI：10.2471/BLT.14.142299
出版社：World Health Organisation
摘要：In the summer of 1976, at a convention for the American Legion, a mysterious outbreak of pneumonia affected 182 people, of whom 29 died. The spread of the infection appeared to be airborne, but it was not until the following year that the cause was identified as a bacterium. Legionnaire's disease, as it is now known, is caused by inhalation of aerosols (fine particles or droplets), containing bacte- ria of the genus Legionella. This pattern of transmission means that the disease is likely to be affected by weather and climate, but the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, (IPCC) did not in- clude it in its recent report. 1 This paper argues that Legionnaire's disease should now be added to the IPCC's list of im- portant climate-sensitive health issues