A third person has died in connection with the Legionnaires\u2019 disease outbreak on Manhattan\u2019s Upper East Side, city health officials said Sunday.<\/p>\n
The cluster has sickened 74 people, according to the city Health Department. Eight people remained hospitalized and 51 have been discharged from the hospital, officials said.<\/p>\n
Health Commissioner Dr. Alister Martin said officials have not identified anyone with new symptoms in more than a week and are not seeing concerning trends in emergency department data. The department, Martin said, believes the source of exposure has likely been eliminated after efforts to clean and disinfect cooling towers that tested positive.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is with great sadness that I report a third person has died in connection with the Legionnaires\u2019 disease community cluster on the Upper East Side,\u201d Martin said in a statement. \u201cOur hearts are with their family and friends as they mourn their loss.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Health Department announced the first death in connection with the cluster on Friday and a second death on Saturday. Authorities have not released any additional information about the people who died.<\/p>\n
Officials said the outbreak is affecting three ZIP codes \u2014 10028, 10075 and 10128 \u2014 covering parts of Carnegie Hill and Yorkville. Authorities said people who have spent time in those areas should seek medical attention if they develop flu-like symptoms, including cough, fever or difficulty breathing. Symptoms can appear up to 14 days after exposure.<\/p>\n
Legionnaires\u2019 disease is a type of pneumonia caused by inhaling water vapor contaminated with Legionella bacteria. The disease is not contagious and can be treated with antibiotics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A third person has died in connection with the Legionnaires\u2019 disease outbreak on Manhattan\u2019s Upper East Side, city…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300399,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-300398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300398","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=300398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}