The Bellevue-Stratford Hotel in July 1976, when it hosted a statewide convention of the American Legion. Soon after, a pneumonia-like disease killed 29 people and sickened 182 more who had been in the hotel. The vast majority were members of the convention. The negative publicity associated with what became known as "Legionnaires' Disease" caused occupancy at the Bellevue-Stratford to plummet to 4 percent and the hotel finally closed on November 18, 1976. In 1977, Dr. Joseph McDade discovered a new bacterium, which was identified as the causative organism. It thrives in hot, damp places like the water of the cooling towers for the
2018 Équateur province Ebola outbreak 2018), which was the most serious in the country since 1994. The table below indicates the 10 outbreaks that have occurred since 1976: 2018 Équateur province Ebola outbreak The 2018 Équateur province Ebola outbreak occurred in the north-west of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) from May to July 2018. It was the largest outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD) since the West African epidemic of 2013–16, but never spread beyond Équateur province. It was also the first time the rVSV-ZEBOV Ebola vaccine had been used to stop an outbreak, with a total of 3,481 people vaccinated. It was