NYC Investigates New Outbreak of Legionnaires' Disease- Morris Park area

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Source: http://nysepost.com/nyc-investigates-new-outbreak-of-legionnaires-disease-6332

NYC Investigates New Outbreak of Legionnaires' Disease
Sep 29 2015

After an outbreak of more than 100 cases of Legionnaires' disease rocked the South Bronx in August, a new Legionnaires' cluster popped up a few miles north in late September.

No one has died in the current outbreak, which is limited to Morris Park, health officials said. The Health Department says seven people have been sickened since last week, but no new fatalities have been reported.

The patients who live or work in the neighborhood range between the ages of 45 and 75 and are now hospitalized...

 

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Source: http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/loca...ase-Outbreak-Health-Department-329996451.html


NBC New York
Number of Cases Rises as NYC Investigates New Legionnaires' Disease Cluster in the Bronx: Sources

Authorities have added three more cases to a new cluster of Legionnaires' disease that has emerged in a Bronx neighborhood, bringing the total number of patients to 10, city sources confirm to NBC 4 New York...

 

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Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/01/n...nx-outbreak-of-legionnaires-disease.html?_r=0

One Dead in New Bronx Outbreak of Legionnaires? Disease
By BENJAMIN MUELLERSEPT. 30, 2015

One person who contracted Legionnaires? disease amid a cluster of cases in the Morris Park section of the Bronx has died, the authorities said on Wednesday, as health officials ordered cooling towers infected with the bacteria to be cleaned.

Thirteen people in the area, all of whom had serious underlying medical conditions, began to experience symptoms in September. The disease is caused by the bacteria Legionella, which inspectors discovered in recent days in 15 nearby cooling towers on top of buildings...