{"id":205196,"date":"2022-09-09T19:30:03","date_gmt":"2022-09-09T14:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=205196"},"modified":"2022-09-09T19:30:03","modified_gmt":"2022-09-09T14:00:03","slug":"argentinas-mystery-pneumonia-outbreak-finally-identified-as-legionellosis-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/argentinas-mystery-pneumonia-outbreak-finally-identified-as-legionellosis-disease\/","title":{"rendered":"Argentina\u2019s mystery pneumonia outbreak finally identified as Legionellosis disease"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article<\/span><b> \u201c<\/b><b>Argentina\u2019s mystery pneumonia outbreak finally identified as Legionellosis disease<\/b><b>\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in <\/span><b>Down To Earth <\/b>on<b> 6th September 2022<\/b><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A mysterious pneumonia outbreak in Argentina has been identified as Legionellosis disease.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is Legionellosis disease?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Legionellosis is a pneumonia-like illness that varies in severity from mild febrile illness to a serious and sometimes fatal form of pneumonia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Caused by:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The causative agents are Legionella bacteria from water or potting mix.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Symptoms<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: It includes fever, muscle and abdominal pain and shortness of breath.\u202f<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Transmission: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The disease typically spreads via inhalation of contaminated aerosols from contaminated water, which could come from \u2014 air conditioning cooling towers, evaporative condensers associated with air conditioning and industrial cooling, hot and cold-water systems, humidifiers and whirlpool spas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Vulnerable Group:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> People\u202fwho have comorbidities like hypertension, diabetes, obesity, respiratory problems, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), or those who follow poor habits like smoking are more prone to the condition.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Treatmen<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>t<\/strong>: Treatments exist, but there is no vaccine currently available for Legionnaires\u2019 disease. Patients with this disease always require antibiotic treatment following diagnosis.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Prevention<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: The public health threat posed by legionellosis can be addressed by implementing water safety plans by authorities responsible for building safety or water system safety.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cArgentina\u2019s mystery pneumonia outbreak finally identified as Legionellosis disease\u201d published in Down To Earth on 6th September 2022 What is the News? A mysterious pneumonia outbreak in Argentina has been identified as Legionellosis disease. What is Legionellosis disease? Legionellosis is a pneumonia-like illness that varies in severity&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/argentinas-mystery-pneumonia-outbreak-finally-identified-as-legionellosis-disease\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Argentina\u2019s mystery pneumonia outbreak finally identified as Legionellosis disease<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1738,9],"tags":[10504,10514],"class_list":["post-205196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-down-to-earth","tag-dte","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704806735},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}