50 infected with legionnaires' at Quincy veterans home

Saturday, September 5, 2015
QUINCY, Ill. (WLS) -- The legionnaires' outbreak in western Illinois is growing as 50 people at a veterans home have now come down with the sickness.
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So far, at least eight people have died from it.

Officials say despite the increase in cases, no one at the veterans home has been hospitalized in the past four days.

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