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What is Legionnaires' disease? How do people contract this disease?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

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Give 3 examples of drugs harmful in pregnancy and the resulting conditions or abnormality.
 
  What will be an ideal response?



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Answer to Question 1

Legionnaires' disease is a type of pneumonia caused by a gram-negative, rod-shaped bacterium called Legionella pneumophilia that is widely distributed in the environment. The organism thrives in moist places, and people become infected by inhaling airborne organisms in aerosolized water droplets.

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Thalidomide: used in the 1960s to treat nausea and vomiting; can cause malformation of the upper or lower limbs
Heroin, methadone, and cocaine: congenital malformations in fetus with development of narcotic withdrawal symptoms a few days following delivery
Tetracycline: yellowish discoloration of the enamel




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