Met Museum, several elite NYC prep schools among 76 buildings positive for bacteria behind Legionnaires’ outbreak

Source: New York Post

The bustling Metropolitan Museum of Art and several pricey Manhattan prep schools are among dozens of new buildings to test positive for the bacteria behind the growing Legionnaires’ disease outbreak on the Upper East Side. The buildings are among 76 that the New York City Health Department has ordered to thoroughly clean and disinfect their cooling towers after they tested positive for Legionella bacteria, as the outbreak has sickened 63 people and counting. The Met, along with 19 other properties, has been ordered to remediate its tainted water-cooling towers by Thursday, New York City Health Commissioner Dr.