This 1977 image shows microbiologists Joseph E. McDade (left), and Charles C. Shepard (right), isolating the agent that had caused the 1976 Legionnaires' outbreak at a Philadelphia convention of the American Legion. They determined that the cause was a type of bacteria, which they named Legionella pneumophila.

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