Legionnaires' disease, NYC and cooling towers
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Harlem Hospital Center and a public health clinic are among the buildings with cooling towers that tested positive for Legionella, the bacteria that causes Legionnaires’ disease, during an outbreak in Harlem,
A fourth person has died in connection with a Legionnaires’ disease outbreak in New York City. Health officials disclosed the latest death Thursday as they revealed that some cooling towers tested positive for the bacteria in some city-run buildings.
In the five ZIP codes affected by the outbreak, the number of inspections fell more dramatically than in the rest of the city.
The last of 12 cooling towers that tested positive for the bacteria currently spawning a Legionnaires’ outbreak in Harlem is being remediated Friday, with officials hoping containment efforts will help prevent another death.
Eight 375ft-tall cooling towers crashed to the ground yesterday in the largest simultaneous demolition of its kind. Hundreds of people watched the structures’ tumble at Cottam Power Station in
Here’s what to know about water-cooling towers amid a cluster of Legionnaires’ disease cases in Central Harlem.
Spanning Cottam and two other former power stations, plans could deliver 6,800 homes, 15,500 jobs, and £930m in economic growth