| Legionnaires' Disease | |
| Season 1, Episode 7 | |
| Air Date | November 7, 1996 |
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Legionnaires' Disease refers to episode 7 of the first season of the television series Forensic Files which was broadcast for the first time on November 7, 1996.
Plot summary[]
In 1976 when 180 Legionnaires contract pneumonia-like symptoms after a convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and 29 of them die, doctors and scientists are mystified. T
he determination of one scientist helps to determine the cause and likely vector of this deadly disease now known as Legionnaires' disease. This is one of the most famous medical detective stories.