LYCOS RETRIEVER 
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Illness, although often used to mean disease,[6] can ... refer to a person's perception of their health, regardless of whether they in fact have a disease. A person without any disease may feel unhealthy and simply have the perception of having a disease. Another person may feel healthy with similar perceptions of perfectly good health. The individual's perception of good health may even persist with the medical diagnosis of having a disease; for example, such as dangerously high blood pressure, which may lead to a fatal heart attack or stroke.
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Illness, although often used to mean disease, can ... refer to a person's perception of personal health, regardless of whether the person in fact may have a disease. A person without any disease may feel unhealthy and believe he has an illness. Another person may feel healthy and believe he does not have an illness even though he may have a disease such as dangerously high blood pressure, which may lead to a fatal heart attack or stroke.
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Legionnaires' disease acquired its name in 1976 when an outbreak of pneumonia occurred among persons attending a convention of the American Legion in Philadelphia. Later, the bacterium causing the illness was named Legionella.
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A person does not have to be in the deep woods to become infected with the bacteria causing Lyme disease as once thought. It can even be contracted in the backyards of suburbia. Obviously though, tick-infested areas are most susceptible.
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