Fifty years ago a strange illness befell veterans at a reunion in Philadelphia. News media called it The Philly Killer and the Pandemic of the Century. The culprit was an unknown species of bacteria that continues to harm, and often kill. One by me: www.sciencehistory.org/stories/maga...
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The Philly Killer at 50
Legionnaires’ disease is more prevalent than ever. So how did we forget it?