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1 dead as city investigates Legionnaires’ disease cluster in the South Bronx
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THE BRONX (PIX11) -- New York City health officials are investigating a Legionnaires’ disease cluster in the South Bronx, where five cases have been confirmed, and one person has died. The cases are in parts of Melrose and Morrisania, including ZIP codes 10451 and 10456.
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On Thursday, the New York City Health Department announced its investigation into a new Legionnaires’ cluster impacting parts of the South Bronx, where one person died and at least five others are diagnoses with the disease.
NEW YORK (PIX11) -- One person in the Bronx has died from Legionnaires’ disease. Five others have also been diagnosed with the disease, New York City Department of Health officials announced Thursday evening.
The city Health Department is investigating the apparent cluster, and the city said it would check nearby cooling towers. An earlier outbreak in Manhattan killed 11 people.
The health department plans to begin outreach in the affected Bronx nabes on Friday, including weekend town halls -- and comes on the heels of the deadly bug killing 11 along the Upper West Side earlier this summer.
Five people have been diagnosed with Legionnaires’ disease and one has died in a likely cluster in parts of Melrose and Morrisania, health officials announced Thursday. The city is investigating the cases in ZIP codes 10451 and 10456 and testing cooling towers in the area for Legionella, the bacteri…
A second deadly cluster of Legionnaires’ disease this year has been identified in the South Bronx, as a review of records by The City Reporter indicates several buildings in the affected area were not in compliance with required testing of cooling towers for the Legionella bacteria.
The disease is a form of pneumonia caused by Legionella bacteria, which can grow in warm water and spread through mist produced by cooling towers One person has died from legionnaires’ disease, and four more have been sickened in New York City amid a new cluster of cases only weeks after local healt…
THE BRONX (PIX11) -- New York City health officials are investigating a Legionnaires’ disease cluster in the South Bronx, where five cases have been confirmed, and one person has died. The cases are in parts of Melrose and Morrisania, including ZIP codes 10451 and 10456.
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