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A mixed infodemiology and environmental surveillance approach was applied, including the analysis of 95 online media items across nine languages, Google Trends search-interest data, and hotel water-system surveillance data from epidemiologically linked facilities. Sampling conducted in a limited number of hotels associated with TALD cases indicated that approximately 50% of the water samples exceeded the laboratory reporting limit of \u226550 CFU\/L for Legionella spp., a numerically correct but context-specific finding. Numerical misframing occurred in 83.7%, 41.7%, and 18.2% of Greek, German, and English language items, respectively, with significant differences across language markets (\u03c72 (8) = 43.75, p &lt; 0.0001; Cram\u00e9r\u2019s V = 0.679). Public search-interest signals were transient and geographically limited. Environmental surveillance showed no increase in Legionella pneumophila risk, with similar proportions of samples \u226550 CFU\/L in the pre-\/peri-infodemic (January\u2013July 2025) and post-infodemic (August\u2013November 2025) periods (23.11% [95% CI: 18.21\u201328.87] vs. 24.45% [19.34\u201330.41]) and similar exceedance of \u22651000 CFU\/L (13.45% [9.69\u201318.36] vs. 14.41% [10.45\u201319.55]). 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