Atlanta Rewind: CDC isolates Legionnaires' Disease in 1977
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On January 14, 1977, the director of the Centers for Disease Control's Laboratory Division, Charles Shepard, M.D. (right), and microbiologist Dr. McDade (left), isolated the agent that had caused the Legionnaires’ outbreak of 1976 that killed 29 people in Pennsylvania and severely sickened over 200 more. The Atlanta-based CDC led the 1976-77 investigation into what was causing the outbreak. -- Text from the CDC and AJC