{"id":184975,"date":"2025-08-29T16:08:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T16:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/184975\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T16:08:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T16:08:17","slug":"death-toll-from-legionnaires-disease-outbreak-in-new-york-city-rises-to-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/184975\/","title":{"rendered":"Death toll from Legionnaires&#8217; disease outbreak in New York City rises to 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">NEW YORK &#8212; New York City health officials have discovered a seventh death linked to a <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/legionnaires-disease-water-harlem-321a278807329f3843c8d37d40e09e51\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Legionnaires\u2019 disease outbreak<\/a> in Central Harlem, where more than 100 people have been diagnosed with the ailment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The latest death <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NYCHealthCommr\/status\/1961172221197729967\" rel=\"nofollow\">was announced Thursday<\/a>. Officials said they had concluded the death of a person with the disease who died before mid-August is associated with the cluster.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \"><a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/site\/doh\/health\/health-topics\/legionnaires-disease.page\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Officials said<\/a> 114 people have been diagnosed with Legionnaires\u2019 disease as of Thursday, while six people are hospitalized.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The bacteria that causes Legionnaires\u2019 disease had been discovered in 12 cooling towers on 10 buildings, including a city-run hospital and sexual health clinic, <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/site\/doh\/about\/press\/pr2025\/nyc-health-provides-third-legionnaires-cluster-update.page\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">health officials said<\/a>. Remediation efforts have since been completed on all of the cooling towers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Legionnaires\u2019 disease is a type of pneumonia that is caused by Legionella bacteria, which grow in warm water and spread through building water systems. The city\u2019s outbreak has been linked to cooling towers, which use water and a fan to cool buildings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">People usually develop symptoms \u2014 a cough, fever, headaches, muscle aches and shortness of breath \u2014 between two days and two weeks after exposure to the bacteria, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">City health officials say people who live or work in the area should contact a health care provider if they develop flu-like symptoms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK &#8212; New York City health officials have discovered a seventh death linked to a Legionnaires\u2019 disease&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":184976,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[103887,5229,347,46861,57,210,64166,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,61,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-184975","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-103887","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-article","11":"tag-disease-outbreaks","12":"tag-general-news","13":"tag-health","14":"tag-legionnaires-disease","15":"tag-new-york","16":"tag-new-york-city","17":"tag-newyork","18":"tag-newyorkcity","19":"tag-ny","20":"tag-nyc","21":"tag-u-s-news","22":"tag-united-states","23":"tag-united-states-of-america","24":"tag-unitedstates","25":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","26":"tag-us","27":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115112923451243599","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}