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PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Two men tested positive for Legionnaires disease after they attended the Pennsylvania American Legion's annual convention in Montgomery County, not far from where 34 people died of the disease at a similar event in 1976, hotel officials said Thursday.
The two legionnaires, 60 and 70 years old, are from the Pittsburgh area and are back home after brief hospitalizations, said Kit Watson, Adjutant for the Pennsylvania posts of the American Legion. Three other legionnaires who felt sick after the convention were tested and results came back negative for the respiratory infection, he said.
The cases come more than three decades after the bacteria was discovered nearby in Philadelphia, where 34 people died and 221 became ill at an American Legion convention in 1976.
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