{"id":348262,"date":"2026-09-16T12:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T12:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/348262\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T12:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T12:24:09","slug":"bronx-legionnaires-outbreak-10-cooling-towers-disinfected-investigation-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/348262\/","title":{"rendered":"Bronx Legionnaires&#8217; Outbreak: 10 cooling towers disinfected, investigation continues"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"sub-headline watch-truncate\" data-v-7521dc01=\"\">NYC Health officials said 10 cooling towers in the Bronx have been disinfected\u2014including at Yankee Stadium and Lincoln Hospital\u2014after traces of Legionella bacteria were detected. The outbreak in the South Bronx has left 1 person dead, with 11 confirmed cases and 3 individuals currently hospitalized. FOX 5 NY&#8217;s Jessica Formoso reports.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Posted\u00a0September 16, 2026 7:47am EDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NYC Health officials said 10 cooling towers in the Bronx have been disinfected\u2014including at Yankee Stadium and Lincoln&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348263,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-348262","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\/348262","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=348262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}