Legionnaires' disease showed that Legionnaires' disease was responsible and the immediate epidemiological investigation traced the source of the infection to the air-conditioning cooling tower on the roof of Stafford District Hospital. In March 1999, a large outbreak in the Netherlands occurred during the Westfriese Flora flower exhibition in Bovenkarspel; 318 people became ill and at least 32 people died. This was the second-deadliest outbreak since the 1976 outbreak and possibly the deadliest, as several people were buried before Legionnaires' disease had been diagnosed. The world's largest outbreak of Legionnaires' disease happened in July 2001 with people appearing at the hospital on July
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