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The Guggenheim Museum is among the buildings with water cooling towers infected with Legionella. Getty Images<\/p>\n
The other 12 buildings were ordered to complete the deep cleaning to eradicate the Legionella bacteria by Saturday. It is not yet clear if they all complied with the timeframe.<\/p>\n
The Guggenheim \u2014 which has an average of 1,100 daily visitors \u2014 was not ordered to shut down at any point, the DOH said.<\/p>\n
The museum told The Post Saturday it took immediate remediation steps after it learned of the presence of Legionella bacteria.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe city has confirmed that there is no additional action needed at this time, and this poses no risk to anyone inside the building,\u201d a Guggenheim spokesperson said, adding that the museum conducts monthly cooler tower testing and treatment.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe safety of our staff and the public are the utmost priority, and we are continuing to follow all city guidelines.\u201d<\/p>\n
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The screening tests could not determine whether the Legionella was alive or dead. Universal Images Group via Getty Images<\/p>\n
The museum would not say if it had reached out to patrons who may have visited when Legionella bacteria were in the cooling system.<\/p>\n
The city has issued a blanket warning to anyone who lives, works or has visited the infected neighborhood since late June to immediately contact a health care provider upon developing flu-like symptoms.<\/p>\n
The full list of infected buildings released on the city\u2019s preliminary list is:<\/p>\n
180 East End Ave.\u00a0<\/p>\n
1750 York Ave.\u00a0<\/p>\n
1660 Second Ave\u00a0<\/p>\n
1438 Third Ave.\u00a0<\/p>\n
1511 Third Ave.\u00a0<\/p>\n
1551 Third\u00a0Ave.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n
1071 Fifth Ave. \u00a0<\/p>\n
1080 Fifth Ave.\u00a0<\/p>\n
1001 Fifth Ave.\u00a0<\/p>\n
240 E. 82nd St.\u00a0<\/p>\n
8 E. 83rd St.\u00a0<\/p>\n
145 E. 84th St.\u00a0<\/p>\n
117 E. 85th St.\u00a0<\/p>\n
125 E. 87th St.\u00a0<\/p>\n
152 E. 87th St.\u00a0<\/p>\n
120 E. 87th St.\u00a0<\/p>\n
501 E. 87th St.\u00a0<\/p>\n
168 E. 88th St.\u00a0<\/p>\n
160 E. 88th St.\u00a0<\/p>\n
1875 Second Ave.\u00a0<\/p>\n
1110 Fifth\u00a0Ave.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n
153 E. 78th St.\u00a0<\/p>\n
135 E. 79th\u00a0St.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n
300 E. 79th\u00a0St.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n
238 E. 81ST\u00a0St.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n
160 E. 84th St. \u00a0<\/p>\n
114 E. 85th St. \u00a0<\/p>\n
401 E. 88th St. \u00a0<\/p>\n
333 E. 91st\u00a0St.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n
354 E. 91st\u00a0St.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n
312 E. 95th\u00a0St.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
The cluster of buildings was screened through a polymerase chain reaction test \u2014 which cannot indicate whether the bacteria are alive or dead.<\/p>\n
Only live bacteria can cause the potentially devastating illness.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s also still not clear which building could have been the source of the outbreak.<\/p>\n
The investigation will continue through the weekend \u2014 meaning more buildings could be added to the infected list. <\/p>\n
It takes two weeks for the test results to be returned. <\/p>\n
At least 46 people have been diagnosed with Legionnaires, including 22 who remain hospitalized. <\/p>\n
The city so far has tested 183 cooling towers on the Upper East Side since the July 2 outbreak, officials said.<\/p>\n
More than half of the neighborhood\u2019s cooling towers had been dinged by health officials during their latest inspections \u2014 including some who failed to perform regular monitoring and cleaning and failing to submit Legionella test results to the health department, as required by law, records show.<\/p>\n
Health officials emphasized that it is safe to use air conditioners\u00a0and\u00a0cooling centers in the neighborhood despite the outbreak. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Guggenheim Museum is among the 31 Upper East Side buildings where the bacteria that causes Legionnaires\u2019 disease…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293277,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[8583,5237,8467,75,57,9,56,63,65,64,466,58],"class_list":["post-293276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-guggenheim-museum","tag-health-department","tag-legionnaires-disease","tag-manhattan","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-upper-east-side","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}