{"id":343397,"date":"2026-09-11T00:36:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T00:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/343397\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T00:36:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T00:36:11","slug":"1-dead-in-connection-with-new-cluster-of-legionnaires-disease-in-the-bronx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/343397\/","title":{"rendered":"1 dead in connection with new cluster of Legionnaires&#8217; disease in the Bronx"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/m2qptwajxtfrrp84.jpg\" alt=\"NYC officials facing scrutiny over Legionnaires' response\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-892ef6a8=\"\"\/>    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/m2qptwajxtfrrp84.jpg\" alt=\"NYC officials facing scrutiny over Legionnaires' response\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"vod-poster-image vod-poster-image--embedded\" data-v-5173a8d8=\"\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">THE BRONX &#8211; One person has died in connection with a cluster of Legionnaires&#8217; disease after five were diagnosed with it in the Bronx.<\/p>\n<p>   1 dead from Legionnaires&#8217; in the Bronx <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WNYW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The New York City Health Department is investigating a community cluster of Legionnaires&#8217; disease in the South Bronx.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Five people were diagnosed with the disease, and one has died in connection with the cluster.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">&#8220;Community health workers will be canvassing the neighborhood,&#8221; Health Commissioner Dr. Alister Martin confirmed in a press release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: This article includes a press release from the New York City Health Department.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/tag\/us\/ny\/nyc\/bronx\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bronx<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THE BRONX &#8211; One person has died in connection with a cluster of Legionnaires&#8217; disease after five were&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":343398,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,12,56,63,129,131,130,618],"class_list":["post-343397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343397","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=343397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}