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- Virtopsy - (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3826044/)
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Author: Dr. Nithin Jayan / Dr. Sasi Kumar
Editor: Dr. Sunil Shroff / Dr. Hena Mariam
Technically Checked by: Lingaraj
Did you know that Legionnaire's disease was discovered as a result of autopsy. In 1976 34 of the 221 delegates died when they attended an American Legion conference in Philadelphia. Food poisoning was ruled out and after this it became apparent that they had inhaled a bacterium Legionella on autopsies.