HLTB21H3 Chapter 1: Chapter 1

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Textbook: chapter one the nature of plagues. (1976) peter turner, wwii veteran, fell ill following a stay at a hotel in pennsylvania for a legionnaires" convention. Early symptoms: high fever, chills, headache, and muscle ache and pains. Later symptoms (a few days later): dry couch, chest pains, shortness of breath, vomiting, and diarrhea. Final symptoms (a week later): lungs filled with fluid and pus, confusion, disorientation, hallucinations, and loss of memory. 221 others legionnaires also became ill and 33 of them including turner died of pneumonia. Pathway of spread of disease: *aspiration* of bacteria (called legionella) in *aerosolized* water from ac, while in lobby of the bellevue-stratford hotel. Unlike infections caused by inhalation, aspiration is produced by choking. Secretions in the mouth get past the choking reflex and, instead of going into the esophagus and stomach, mistakenly enter the lungs.

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