Legionnaires' disease fever experience fever and muscle aches without pneumonia. They generally recover in 2-5 days without treatment. For Pontiac fever, the time between exposure and symptoms is generally a few hours to 2 days. Over 90% of cases of Legionnaires' disease are caused by "Legionella pneumophila." Other types include "L. longbeachae", "L. feeleii", "L. micdadei", and "L. anisa". Legionnaires' disease is usually spread by the breathing in of aerosolized water and/or soil contaminated with the "Legionella" bacteria. Experts have stated that Legionnaires' disease is not transmitted from person to person. In 2014, one case of possible spread from someone sick to
Infectious disease (athletes) route and is indicative of a breakdown in food safety or potable water protection, hepatitis B, C and HIV are spread by contact with bodily fluids, most frequently blood, although in the case of HIV, not exclusively so. Also, unlike hepatitis A in which the sufferer almost always recovers completely, or rarely dies, both hepatitis B and C often give rise to chronic carrier states and indolent disease in many. At present, Hepatitis C is the most common reason for liver transplantation in the US while HIV is currently incurable although its clinical course can be modified. In any case,