NYC Legionnaires’ outbreak up to 10 dead, 100 diagnosed

An outbreak occurred in July in New York City.

The city sent the directive to roughly 3,200 buildings across the five boroughs.

No vaccines are now available in preventing Legionnaires’ disease. 34 deaths were related to the incident.

“There’s a limited number of companies that do this kind of work, so as you can imagine, we’re just getting swamped with panicky calls”, he told WCBS 880’s Marla Diamond. We didn’t know the treatment of the pneumonia.

The disease does not spread person to person and not everyone exposed will get sick.

The disease takes its name from its first outbreak, in 1976, at a Philadelphia hotel where a meeting of the American Legion society was taking place. Between then and January, 12 people in Co-op City contracted the potentially deadly disease.

Mayor Invoice De Blasio burdened Thursday that the mandated exams are a precautionary measure and the town is “assured that we’ve already disinfected the supply of this outbreak”.

Health officials say Legionnaires’ disease is easily diagnosed and treated with antibiotics but can pose a serious risk to anyone with an underlying medical condition.

But Dr. Neil Fishman, an infectious disease doctor and colleague of Fraser’s at Penn, said nowadays the disease is actually pretty common.

City health officials have said the drinking water supply is unaffected by the disease outbreak and that fountains, shower heads and pools are safe as well. And a report details how well health officials have dealt with the outbreak, saying, “Any Legionnaires’ disease outbreak has the potential to cause public concern or even alarm”.

“We remain confident that the source of these current cases has been remediated”.

Only one new case has been reported over the last day, the New York Times stated.

“A single case does not raise suspicion about the integrity of the tower”.

Richard Harbus/for New York Daily News This water tower at the Verizon building on East 167 St.in the South Bronx tested positive for the bacteria. “That doesn’t mean they’re causing the outbreak”.

Andrew Cuomo, New York’s governor, stated that they will start massive testing efforts tomorrow in the immediate area where they will have coordinated testing programs wherein teams would be deployed to do cooling towers testing.

That has city officials there calling for stronger safety regulations.