{"id":555891,"date":"2026-07-18T10:15:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T10:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/555891\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T10:15:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T10:15:13","slug":"one-dead-from-legionnaires-disease-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/555891\/","title":{"rendered":"One dead from Legionnaires&#8217; disease in New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One person has died in New York\u2019s Upper East Side neighborhood after contracting Legionnaires\u2019 disease, health officials said Friday in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The New York City Health Department also said that 67 cases had been confirmed in the neighborhood and that 12 people were hospitalized.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Legionnaires\u2019 disease is a serious lung infection caused by Legionella bacteria, with a fatality rate of nine percent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">People can become infected through contaminated water or by inhaling airborne microdroplets. The disease is not transmitted from person to person.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The New York City Health Department urged anyone experiencing flu-like symptoms \u2014 such as fever, chills, muscle aches or coughing \u2014 to seek medical attention.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Additionally, officials have ordered at least 76 buildings \u2014 including one housing the famed Metropolitan Museum of Art \u2014 to undertake special cleaning after water samples tested positive for the bacteria.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The disease takes its name from the first known outbreak, which occurred in 1976 at a Philadelphia hotel where the American Legion veterans\u2019 organization was holding a convention. Thirty-four people died.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One person has died in New York\u2019s Upper East Side neighborhood after contracting Legionnaires\u2019 disease, health officials said&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[103,61,1042,60,116117],"class_list":["post-555891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-international","tag-ireland","tag-mna"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}