If you're healthy and young, you're less likely than others to get sick if you breathe in legionella bacteria. Factors that can raise your risk of getting Legionnaire's:
It’s a type of pneumonia that can become life-threatening. You can get it after inhaling one of group of bacteria called legionella. There are about 35 types of legionella that scientists link to the disease, but a specific form calledJust because legionella bacteria happen to be around, it doesn’t mean they’re likely to infect you. In fact, they seem to be mostly harmless in lakes and streams.
This can happen if an infection makes your blood pressure drop and cuts blood to your organs. Your heart first works harder to try to help but eventually weakens and cuts blood flow even more.When your kidneys stop working, toxins, fluid, and waste build up in your body, which can cause tissue damage and illness.You might also hear it called Pontiac fever. Like Legionnaires’ disease, legionella bacteria cause it. But unlike Legionnaires’, it doesn’t cause pneumonia.
The name, Legionnaires’ disease, dates back to 1976. That’s when bacteria infected and sickened a group of people attending a Philadelphia convention of the American Legion of Pennsylvania. Scientists named the bacteriaand the illness Legionnaires’ disease, after the group that drew attention to this unique form of pneumonia.
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