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Radio 4,09 Jul 2008,30 mins

SeriesSeries 8

Legionnaire's Disease

In Living Memory

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Chris Ledgard travels to Philadelphia to meet the survivors and the scientists who struggled to find the cause of the mystery illness that struck down over a hundred ex-servicemen and killed 29 in the weeks following an American Legion convention in July 1976.

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