Source: New York Post
Officials have made the shocking revelation that the ongoing outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease on the Upper East Side wasn’t caused by a building’s decrepit drinking water system — but by water mist from a cooling tower erected to help New Yorkers beat the heat. The city has installed 179 cooling towers across the zip codes impacted by the outbreak so far (10028, 10128 and 10075) where at least 23 people have been sickened so far, Council Speaker Julie Menin announced in a letter to residents Monday. Menin said the cooling towers are in the process of being inspected, and that the outbreak was identified “relatively early” thanks to 56 cooling tower inspectors on duty – up from 33 last year, when seven people died during an outbreak in Central Harlem last summer.
