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A Macao resident has been confirmed to contract the Legionnaires' disease, but has since recovered from it, reported on Thursday, quoting information from local health authorities. The middle-aged male patient fell ill last Friday, developing symptoms of fever and cough, and he was later sent to a local hospital where he was diagnosed with the disease, the daily quoted a statement from Macao's Health Bureau as saying. Also known as legionellosis, Legionnaires' disease is a form of bacterial pneumonia first identified after an outbreak at an American Legion meeting in Philadelphia in 1976. It is mainly spread through water droplets in air conditioning and central heating. The case in Macao has been classified as an "isolated" incident since the patient did not travel outside the city 10 days before getting ill, and none of his family members and colleagues has so far shown any symptoms of the disease, according to the daily. The fatality rate of Legionnaires' disease reportedly has ranged from five percent to 30 percent during various outbreaks, the daily also said.
A Macao resident has been confirmed to contract the Legionnaires' disease, but has since recovered from it, reported on Thursday, quoting information from local health authorities. The middle-aged male patient fell ill last Friday, developing symptoms of fever and cough, and he was later sent to a local hospital where he was diagnosed with the disease, the daily quoted a statement from Macao's Health Bureau as saying. Also known as legionellosis, Legionnaires' disease is a form of bacterial pneumonia first identified after an outbreak at an American Legion meeting in Philadelphia in 1976. It is mainly spread through water droplets in air conditioning and central heating. The case in Macao has been classified as an "isolated" incident since the patient did not travel outside the city 10 days before getting ill, and none of his family members and colleagues has so far shown any symptoms of the disease, according to the daily. The fatality rate of Legionnaires' disease reportedly has ranged from five percent to 30 percent during various outbreaks, the daily also said.