{"id":310743,"date":"2026-07-31T14:54:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T14:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/310743\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T14:54:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T14:54:07","slug":"seventh-death-reported-in-ues-legionnaires-disease-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/310743\/","title":{"rendered":"Seventh Death Reported In UES Legionnaires&#8217; Disease Outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>92 confirmed cases7 deaths5 people remain hospitalized67 patients have been discharged from the hospital13 people recovered without hospitalization How Does Legionnaires&#8217; Disease Spread? <\/p>\n<p>Legionnaires&#8217; disease is a severe form of pneumonia caused by Legionella bacteria. The bacteria often grow in warm water systems, including cooling towers.<\/p>\n<p>People become infected after breathing in tiny water droplets contaminated with the bacteria. The disease does not spread from person to person in most cases.<\/p>\n<p> What Symptoms Should You Watch For? <\/p>\n<p>Health officials urge anyone who develops these symptoms after spending time in the affected area to seek medical care:<\/p>\n<p> FeverHeadacheMuscle achesCoughShortness of breathChest painNauseaConfusion<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"92 confirmed cases7 deaths5 people remain hospitalized67 patients have been discharged from the hospital13 people recovered without hospitalization&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310744,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,24,55,54,56],"class_list":["post-310743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310743","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=310743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}