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By William E. Schuiz
Associated Press Writer
ATLANTA ,(AP) _ The bacterium
which causes Legionnaires'
Disease apparently lives in fresh
water and mud and is spread by
digging in the mud or spraying the
water, according to an
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epidemiologist wiin me iNauonai
Center for Disease Control.
"Mud or water probably is a
common place for the bacterium to
live. We've found it too often," said
Dr. David W. Fraser.
Fraser noted a 1978 incident
when 10 employees of the Virginia
Electric Power Co. suddenly
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ueuame 111 wiui uie uistease.
The illness, then undiagnosed,
has been confirmed as a mild form
of Legionnaires' Disease, called
Pontiac Fever after the only other
known outbreak, Fraser said in a
telephone interview from his
home.
The 10 were using compressed
air hoses to clean a cooling unit for
a steam turbine.
"I'm sure they set up quite a
mist of silt, fish, or whatever was
in the pipes," Fraser said,
discussing his account of the incident
published in the August
issue of Science Magazine. "Withir
one to two days after starting
work, all 10 became sick. Nim
were hospitalized." All 1(
recovered.
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Blood samples taken at the time
were tested at the CDC, Fraser
said, and confirmed that the illness
was caused by the bacterium
which causes Legionnaires'
Disease.
"It is apparent that the mud
(containing the bacteria) was in
the steam turbine condenser, and
as the men used their compressed
air hoses, sent up a cloud of this
bacteria which they breathed in
and got sick," Fraser said.
They suffered from the form of
the disease which is known to have
occurred only one other time, in
Pontiac, Mich, in 1968. There were
no fatalities among the 144 cases of
the disease.
The Legionnaires' Disease form,
named after an outbreak in
Philadelphia in 1976 which killed 29
persons, adds pneumonia to the
headache, fever, cnilis ana nausea
of Pontiac Fever and is often fatal
without proper treatment with
antibiotics.
Fraser said one of the questions
i yet to be answered is why the
, bacterium causes Pontiac Fever in
one outbreak and Legionnaires'
t Disease in another.
i "Pontiac Fever infects 95 to 100
I percent of those exposed, while
i Legionnaires' may infect only one
) percent, or at most five percent,"
Fraser said.
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