{"id":295124,"date":"2026-07-14T03:52:51","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T03:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/295124\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T03:52:51","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T03:52:51","slug":"officials-work-to-find-source-of-legionnaires-cluster-in-manhattan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/295124\/","title":{"rendered":"Officials work to find source of Legionnaires\u2019 cluster in Manhattan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">UPPER EAST SIDE, Manhattan (PIX11) \u2013 The NYC Health Department said all 31 Upper East Side apartment buildings that tested positive for Legionella bacteria have now been disinfected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">However, it is not known which of those cooling towers had enough of the live bacteria to have caused the spread of the disease.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a data-ylk=\"slk:Stay connected with community stories that matter: Visit our homepage;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/pix11.com\/\" class=\"promo-link__link\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0Stay connected with community stories that matter: Visit our homepage\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">At a virtual town hall Monday night, Dr. Alister Martin, the NYC Health Commissioner, said that it may take several more days or may never be known.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Martin said it requires a sickened patient to give a sample, and then they do DNA sequencing to compare it to bacteria that was collected from the cooling tower.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Martin said, &#8220;We take the sputum of the patient who is sick with Legionella, Legionnaires&#8217; disease and we do whole genome sequencing; we actually sequence the entire DNA. We then go back to that cooling tower result; sometimes we&#8217;re able to identify an exact match.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">On Monday night, the City Department of Health updated its website that as of July 13, there are: 60 total cases, 15 currently hospitalized, 34 discharged, 11 not hospitalized, and no deaths.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. 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