{"id":345691,"date":"2026-09-13T17:26:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T17:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/345691\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T17:26:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T17:26:15","slug":"news-12-connecticut-bronx-legionnaires-disease-outbreak-grows-to-8-confirmed-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/345691\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Connecticut | Bronx Legionnaires Disease Outbreak Grows To 8 Confirmed Cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The New York City Department of Health (DOH) confirmed the Legionnaires\u2019 disease outbreak in the Bronx has grown to eight confirmed cases as of Saturday morning. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">According to officials, the cluster is in parts of Melrose and Morrisania, including ZIP codes 10451 and 10456.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The New York City Department of Health <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/brooklyn.news12.com\/2026\/09\/11\/legionnaires-cluster-reported-in-the-south-bronx-1-dead-5-others-diagnosed\/30uY0g6jSTG87jVLQNznEn\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said Thursday<\/a> that five people in the South Bronx had been diagnosed with Legionnaires&#8217; disease and that one person had died. As of Saturday, the number of reported cases had risen to eight.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\"><a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/bronx.news12.com\/where-is-this-coming-from-city-seeks-answers-and-information-after-legionnaires-disease-cases-found-in-the-south-bronx\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News 12 spoke with Shakeema Johnson<\/a>, a resident of Mott Haven, who spent most of the past week in the hospital recovering from the disease. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The DOH will also be hosting <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/health-nyc.zoomgov.com\/j\/1656554305\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a virtual town hall<\/a> about Legionnaires&#8217; on Sunday at 3 pm. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">If you or someone you know has any questions, please call 311 or visit nyc.gov\/legionnaires.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York City Department of Health (DOH) confirmed the Legionnaires\u2019 disease outbreak in the Bronx has grown&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":345692,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-345691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345691","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=345691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}