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Legionnaires and Ford

NPR
Published March 14, 2001 at 11:00 PM CST

Karen Schaeffer of member station WCPN reports that the Ford Motor Company has shut down a Cleveland-area engine plant while officials try to pinpoint the source of an outbreak of Legionnaires' Disease that has sickened at least three workers.

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