Legionnaires’ disease outbreak in Harlem leaves at least one dead, 22 others sickened as health officials raise alarm

Source: New York Post

A New Yorker has died and at least 22 others have been sickened in the Legionnaires’ disease outbreak in Harlem, city health officials said in an alarming update. The cluster of pneumonia-like illness, initially detected on July 25, has now been identified in several zipcodes across Harlem, the New York City Health Department said Wednesday. Details were not given on the person who had died.