Latest NYC Legionnaires’ disease outbreak rises to 59 cases — with bacteria now detected for first time across park, at posh UWS building

Source: New York Post

The Legionnaires’ disease outbreak on the Upper East Side has now sickened 59 people — with the dangerous bacteria also found for the first time across the park, in a posh Upper West Side building. The majority of the nearly five dozen people sickened — or 48 victims — have had to be hospitalized for the potentially deadly disease’s severe form of pneumonia, according to the city Department of Health. 3 This illustration shows the potentially deadly Legionella bacteria in water.