November 2019

November 22, 2019

History of Legionnaires’ Disease

History of Legionnaires’ Disease An Unwelcome Guest at the United States’ Bicentennial Legionnaires’ disease was first reported in the summer of 1976, a year in which the United States celebrated its bicentennial. Nowhere was the historic celebration more meaningful than in the city of Philadelphia, often called the birthplace of the nation. During that summer, the City of Brotherly Love […]