{"id":10078,"date":"2025-08-20T13:36:46","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T18:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=10078"},"modified":"2025-08-20T13:36:49","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T18:36:49","slug":"under-pressure-cdc-unraveled-this-mysterious-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/08\/20\/under-pressure-cdc-unraveled-this-mysterious-outbreak\/","title":{"rendered":"Under Pressure, CDC Unraveled This Mysterious Outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/infectiousdisease\/pneumonia\/117064?xid=nl_mpt_investigative2025-08-20&amp;mh=07f73d99b2b546c079b0b5a2312d87b1&amp;zdee=gAAAAABm4uVVa0noffRIJqPd2rsKKgBm5ZURWXfuJljHxkA5SxaiDrFhpdNSLVuatrcndghIUJbdB8i3tZ00Sf5MYAfngC1RuyQP-n6FrYFzvROxn-4_blA%3D&amp;utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=InvestigativeMD_08202025&amp;utm_term=NL_Gen_Int_InvestigateMD_Active\">MedPageToday<\/a> We know what\u00a0<em>Legionella<\/em>\u00a0is thanks to an intense CDC investigation 50 years ago. Summer brings regular outbreaks of Legionnaires&#8217; disease &#8212; including an ongoing one in New York City that has&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/news\/legionnaires-disease-nyc-5th-person-dead\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"killed five peopleopens in a new tab or window, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">killed five peopleopens in a new tab or window<\/a>&nbsp;&#8212; but nearly 50 years ago, the bacterium that causes the disease was unknown to mankind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was an intense and robust CDC investigation that finally identified the pathogen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the time, Walter Orenstein, MD, MPH, former director of the National Immunization Program (now the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases) at the CDC, had just served 2 years in CDC&#8217;s Epidemic Intelligence Service. He was just starting a new assignment for the agency &#8212; investigating a measles outbreak in Maryland &#8212; when he got called to Philadelphia to help get to the bottom of an unusual pneumonia outbreak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/infectiousdisease\/pneumonia\/117064?xid=nl_mpt_investigative2025-08-20&amp;mh=07f73d99b2b546c079b0b5a2312d87b1&amp;zdee=gAAAAABm4uVVa0noffRIJqPd2rsKKgBm5ZURWXfuJljHxkA5SxaiDrFhpdNSLVuatrcndghIUJbdB8i3tZ00Sf5MYAfngC1RuyQP-n6FrYFzvROxn-4_blA%3D&amp;utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=InvestigativeMD_08202025&amp;utm_term=NL_Gen_Int_InvestigateMD_Active\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MedPageToday We know what\u00a0Legionella\u00a0is thanks to an intense CDC investigation 50 years ago. Summer brings regular outbreaks of Legionnaires&#8217; disease &#8212; including an ongoing one in New York City that has&nbsp;killed five peopleopens in a new tab or window&nbsp;&#8212; but nearly 50 years ago, the bacterium that causes the disease was unknown to mankind. 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