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ten, but most signs point to a bleak landscape
unless a significant effort is made to change
course. A few committees of dedicated profes-
sionals in the healthcare, public health, engi-
neering, and industrial hygiene sectors have
been trying to develop guidelines that will help
reduce LD cases. Unfortunately, these com-
mittees of volunteers are not always working in
concert and typically take much longer to reach
consensus than one would hope. Progress will
probably be slow and the task arduous as long
as we rely upon the existing framework of public
health surveillance and voluntary guidelines.
In the next and final article of this series we will
discuss the future of Legionnaires' disease, in-
cluding its control and prevention. We will focus
on proposed changes to the current paradigm,
abandoning failed dogma, and changing the
course of public health policy to prevent this
most preventable of diseases.
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