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Two Dead After Legionnaires' Disease Outbreak In NYC, With 24 Confirmed Cases Two Dead After Legionnaires' Disease Outbreak In NYC, With 24 Confirmed Cases
Two Dead After Legionnaires' Disease Outbreak In NYC, With 24 Confirmed Cases Two deaths have been linked to an outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease in New York City. The Health Department gave an update Wednesday, June 1, on its investigation into a community cluster of the illness in the Highbridge neighborhood of the Bronx. Twenty-four people have been diagnosed with Legionnaires’ disease in the area since Tuesday, May 3, according to health officials. Four people are hospitalized. The two individuals who died were both over the age of 50 and had risk factors for severe disease, health officials said. Legionnaires’ disease is a type of pneumonia caused by the bac…

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Legionnaires’ Disease Cases Reported On Long Island Legionnaires’ Disease Cases Reported On Long Island
Legionnaires’ Disease Cases Reported On Long Island Health officials are investigating a reported outbreak of Legionnaires' disease on Long Island that left one dead and hospitalized 10. There have been nearly a dozen confirmed cases within a one-mile radius in Nassau County between Wantagh Avenue and Old Jerusalem Road on the Levittown-Wantagh border, officials announced. At least one person has died from Legionnaires' and two others remain hospitalized amid the outbreak. Seven others have been discharged after being treated. Each of the cases was reported in the past two weeks. Symptoms of Legionnaires’ disease include fever, chills, m…

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by Zak Failla