{"id":332388,"date":"2026-08-29T01:46:45","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T01:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/332388\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T01:46:45","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T01:46:45","slug":"news-12-bronx-2-more-dead-following-legionnaires-outbreak-on-manhattans-upper-east-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/332388\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Bronx | 2 More Dead Following Legionnaires Outbreak On Manhattans Upper East Side"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Two more New Yorkers are dead after a Legionnaires&#8217; disease outbreak on Manhattan&#8217;s Upper East Side.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The total number of deaths now stands at 11.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">New York City Council Speaker Julie Menin says during a hearing next week, officials will &#8220;closely examine how this tragic outbreak occurred and what additional actions and policies are needed to better protect New Yorkers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Legionnaires&#8217; is a serious type of pneumonia caused by bacteria that can grow in warm water systems.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">People can get the disease after inhaling water droplets or mist that contain the bacteria. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two more New Yorkers are dead after a Legionnaires&#8217; disease outbreak on Manhattan&#8217;s Upper East Side. The total&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":332389,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-332388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332388","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=332388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}