NYC officials investigating spike in Legionnaires? Disease cases in the Bronx

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Source: http://nypost.com/2015/01/07/nyc-officials-investigating-legionnaires-disease-outbreak/


NYC officials investigating Legionnaires? Disease outbreak
By Carl Campanile
January 7, 2015 | 11:51am

Health officials are investigating a spike in Legionnaires? Disease in The Bronx, The Post has learned.

?Providers should consider Legionnaires? Disease when evaluating patients presenting with signs of pneumonia,?? the Health Department said in an alert to medical providers.

Last month, 11 cases of of the disease were reported in The Bronx.

Typically in December there are only 2 or 3 cases in the borough...

 

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Source: http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/loca...ty-Health-Department-Pneumonia-288413741.html

Contaminated Cooling Towers at Co-op City May Be Linked to Bronx Legionnaire's Disease Outbreak: Officials
Tuesday, Jan 13, 2015 ? Updated at 11:53 AM EST

Contaminated cooling towers in Co-op City may be linked to 75 percent of the dozen cases of Legionnaire's disease, a potentially deadly form of pneumonia, that has stricken Bronx residents since December, the Health Department said preliminary tests show...