{"id":347768,"date":"2026-09-15T22:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T22:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/347768\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T22:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T22:38:10","slug":"news-12-bronx-town-hall-to-address-rise-of-legionnaires-disease-cases-in-the-bronx-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/347768\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Bronx | Town Hall To Address Rise Of Legionnaires Disease Cases In The Bronx"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The number of confirmed Legionnaires&#8217; disease cases linked to an outbreak in the Melrose and Morrisania neighborhoods of the Bronx has risen to 11, according to New York City health officials.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Officials said one person has died and three others remain hospitalized as the Health Department continues its investigation into the cluster.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Health officials previously identified 10 cooling towers that tested positive for Legionella bacteria, including towers at Yankee Stadium and Lincoln Hospital.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The city says all 10 cooling towers have now completed the required remediation, including cleaning and disinfection.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The affected cooling towers are located at 820 Concourse Village West, 234 E. 149th St., 1 E. 161st St., 470 E. 161st St., 1265 Franklin Ave., 567 Melrose Ave., 3339 Park Ave., 1160 Teller Ave., 890 Washington Ave., and 1085 Washington Ave.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">According to the Health Department, outreach efforts have intensified in recent days, with officials engaging more than 400 residents and distributing more than 1,000 informational flyers about Legionnaires&#8217; disease throughout the affected area. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Despite those efforts, some residents have expressed concerns that they still lack information about the outbreak.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Health officials are continuing community outreach and are holding an in-person town hall Tuesday evening at Metropolitan College in Melrose to provide updates and answer questions from the public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The number of confirmed Legionnaires&#8217; disease cases linked to an outbreak in the Melrose and Morrisania neighborhoods of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347769,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-347768","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\/347768","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=347768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}