Legionnaires cluster emerging on Upper East Side, NYC officials say
📍 Aftermath
The outbreak on the Upper East Side continued to expand through early July, with confirmed cases rising to 36 and hospitalizations increasing as testing of cooling towers proceeded. Health officials still had not identified a source, and more than half of the area's cooling towers had received violations while city officials prepared to release a list of implicated buildings.
The coverage ended without a definitive resolution, leaving the investigation ongoing.
Epilogue added 35d ago, after coverage quieted.
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City investigating possible Upper East Side Legionnaires’ disease outbreak Crain's New York Business · 107d ago broke it first
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