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Legionella bacteria at Yankee Stadium provokes quick response
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CONCOURSE, The Bronx -- Now that the third cluster of Legionnaires' disease in two years has emerged, leaving one person dead and nine others sick, the Health Department has joined with at least one other major institution in fighting the illness: The New York Yankees.
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THE BRONX, N.Y. (PIX11) — A cooling tower located at the Yankee Stadium address is among 10 towers that tested PCR positive for Legionella bacteria on Sunday as officials investigate an outbreak in the South Bronx.
A growing South Bronx Legionnaires' outbreak has sickened 9 people and left 1 dead, while health officials ordered 10 cooling towers, including one at Yankee Stadium, to be disinfected.
The bacteria that causes Legionnaires' disease has been detected at 10 South Bronx cooling towers, including the one overseeing Yankee Stadium, the New York City Health Department said Sunday.
Bacteria that cause potentially fatal Legionnaires’ disease were found in a Yankee Stadium cooling tower — one of 10 such towers in the Bronx that tested positive amid several reported cases of the illness including one death, New York City health officials said.
CONCOURSE, The Bronx (PIX11) -- We have new updates Monday morning regarding a deadly cluster of Legionnaires’ disease in the South Bronx now impacting an iconic sports venue. Yankee Stadium is among 10 buildings the health department is ordering to clean and disinfect their cooling towers.
NEW YORK (AP) — Bacteria that cause potentially fatal Legionnaires’ disease were found in a Yankee Stadium cooling tower — one of 10 such towers in the Bronx that tested positive amid several reported cases of the illness including one death, New York City health officials said.
A cooling tower at Yankee Stadium is among 10 towers that tested positive for Legionella bacteria on Sunday as officials investigate an outbreak in the South Bronx.
10 cooling towers in the South Bronx, including those at Yankee Stadium and Lincoln Hospital, have tested positive for Legionella bacteria as the Health Department investigates the source of an outbreak that has killed one person and sickened nine others.
CONCOURSE, The Bronx -- Now that the third cluster of Legionnaires' disease in two years has emerged, leaving one person dead and nine others sick, the Health Department has joined with at least one other major institution in fighting the illness: The New York Yankees.
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