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Legionnaire's bug kills woman

Friday 02 October 1998 23:02 BST
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Legionnaire's bug kills woman

ONE WOMAN has died and five other people have been taken ill after an outbreak of Legionnaire's disease in Glastonbury, Somerset. Air conditioning at local business premises is being tested. No details of the casualties have been released, except that they are aged between 32 and 76. A woman and a man have left hospital. Three others - two men and a woman - are still in Musgrove Park Hospital, Taunton, two in intensive care.

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