Legionnaires’ Outbreak Linked as Cause to Pneumonia Deaths in Argentina

Legionnaires’ Outbreak Linked as Cause to Pneumonia Deaths in Argentina
A culture of the Legionella pneumophila bacteria at the UZ Gent hospital in Belgium on May 17, 2019. Nicholas Maeterlinck/AFP via Getty Images
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Health authorities confirmed on Saturday that an infectious pneumonia outbreak which killed four people in northwest Argentina had died of Legionnaires’ disease.

The cases are linked to a single private clinic in the city of San Miguel de Tucuman, according to the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO).