confirmed the death in a statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n\u201cWe mourn the loss of each New Yorker, and our hearts are with their loved ones as they navigate this difficult time,\u201d Martin said.<\/p>\n
Last week, the city\u2019s Health Department said one person had died in connection with the cluster.<\/p>\n
Earlier this week, officials said three people remained hospitalized and a total of 11 people had tested positive.<\/p>\n
The department identified 10 cooling towers in the 10451 and 10456 ZIP codes \u2014 covering Melrose and Morrisania \u2014 that had tested positive for Legionella bacteria.<\/p>\n
Earlier in the summer, 11 people died in connection with a Legionnaires\u2019 outbreak on Manhattan\u2019s Upper East Side.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A second person has died in connection with a cluster of Legionnaires\u2019 disease in the South Bronx, health…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349703,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[2952,25,128,313,2953,9,24,12,63,129,131,130,27],"class_list":["post-349702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-app-health","tag-app-top-stories","tag-bronx","tag-deanna-garcia","tag-health","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349702","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=349702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}