{"id":921286,"date":"2026-07-08T17:13:26","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T17:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/921286\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T17:13:26","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T17:13:26","slug":"heres-the-latest-on-the-legionnaires-outbreak-in-upper-manhattan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/921286\/","title":{"rendered":"Here’s the latest on the Legionnaires’ outbreak in Upper Manhattan"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Legionnaires’ disease outbreak continues to spread<\/a> in Manhattan’s Upper East Side as officials investigate its source.<\/p>\n

Cases continue to rise daily<\/a> in the neighborhoods, with a majority of those infected becoming hospitalized.<\/p>\n

Here’s the latest update on the cluster.<\/p>\n

Latest on the Upper East Side Legionnaires’ disease community cluster<\/p>\n

The city’s health department continues to investigate a community cluster in Carnegie Hill and Yorkville, two areas in the Upper East Side.<\/p>\n

The reported ZIP codes affected include: 10028, 10128, and 10075. If multiple people become infected within a neighborhood, a typical source would be a cooling tower, hot tub or spray fountain, NYC Health wrote on its\u00a0website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Mark Levine, the city’s comptroller,\u00a0said<\/a>\u00a0that this current cluster of cases is from a contaminated cooling tower, and not a water system. In another post, Levine said that “it takes two weeks or so to grow legionella samples in the lab so we will not get the location of contaminated towers right away.”<\/p>\n

Legionnaires’ disease cases<\/p>\n

As of late July 7, there has been 28 cases and 21 hospitalizations. No cases have been fatal so far.<\/p>\n

The city continues to urge those who live in or have visited the ZIP codes above to get medical care if they show flu-like symptoms, including:<\/p>\n