Legionnaires' disease

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Treatments and drugs

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Legionnaires' disease is treated with antibiotics. The sooner therapy is started, the less likely the chance of serious complications or death. Pontiac fever goes away on its own without treatment and causes no lingering problems.

Prevention Tests and diagnosis
References
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