TY - JOUR AU - Baker-Goering, Madeleine AU - Roy, Kakoli AU - Edens, Chris AU - Collier, Sarah T1 - Economic Burden of Legionnaires’ Disease, United States, 2014 T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2021 VL - 27 IS - 1 SP - 255 SN - 1080-6059 AB - Through the use of published estimates of medical costs and new calculations of productivity losses, we estimate the lifetime economic burden of 2014 Legionnaires’ disease cases in the United States at ≈$835 million. This total includes $21 million in productivity losses caused by absenteeism and $412 million in productivity losses caused by premature deaths. KW - Legionnaires’ disease KW - cost of illness KW - absenteeism KW - mortality KW - premature KW - Legionella KW - bacteria DO - 10.3201/eid2701.191198 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/27/1/19-1198_article ER - End of Reference