Legionnaires' -- United States
A cluster of Legionnaires' disease centered on a single apartment building [CO-OP City] in the Bronx has sickened 3 people over the past year, leading to 1 death.
The New York Department of Health stresses that this is not considered an outbreak. The affected building, in CO-OP City, does not have a cooling tower, so they're looking at internal plumbing to see if the bacterium is there.
The water is safe to drink, but they're advising residents of the building who are over 50 [years of
Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://healthmap.org/ln.php?5770154&promed&0
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