Paul Hoffman
Herman Friedman
Mauro Bendinelli

2008

Pathogenesis and Immunity

The summer of 2006 marked the 30th anniversary of the outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease, an acute pneumonia that occurred among veterans who had gathered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1976 to celebrate the bicentennial of the founding of the United States. Ironically, the nation and world were braced for an epidemic of swine influenza, which never materialized and no one expected the emergence of a new bacterial pathogen, since most in the medical field sincerely believed that all the pathogens of humans were now known.