For over 10 years, Inland Sales Group has been trying to raise awareness of Legionella. Most people in the United States know nothing about it — where does it come from, how does it get into our bodies and what does the plumbing world have anything to do with it?
Most of us in “the know” are aware of the place and time the Legionella story started: Philadelphia 1976. In January of 1977, the CDC put a name to it — Legionnaires' disease. I am still convinced if the CDC had selected any medical type of name, we would not be talking about this now. Most people, when they hear Legionnaires' disease, they think about the elderly and the sick. Yes, those are people that are most commonly affected, but it certainly is not limited to as we have seen in the past few years.