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Overcrowding Leads to Pneumonia
Loaded on Nov. 15, 1994
published in Prison Legal News
November, 1994, page 14
On September 8, 1994, the New England Journal of Medicine published the report of an investigation conducted by the U. S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention into the outbreak of a deadly form of pneumonia in the Harris County (Houston) jail in Texas in 1989. The outbreak was caused …
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