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  1. Pneumonialike disease, so called because it
  2. was first identified when it broke out at a
  3. convention of the American Legion in
  4. Philadelphia 1976. It is caused by the
  5. bacterium Legionella pneumophila, which
  6. breeds in warm water (for example, in the
  7. cooling towers of air-conditioning systems).
  8. It is spread in minute water droplets, which
  9. may be inhaled.
  10.