{"id":350024,"date":"2026-09-18T06:49:03","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T06:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/350024\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T06:49:03","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T06:49:03","slug":"2-dead-in-connection-with-new-cluster-of-legionnaires-disease-in-the-bronx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/350024\/","title":{"rendered":"2 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\/1789714143_350_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\/1789714143_350_m2qptwajxtfrrp84.jpg\" alt=\"NYC officials facing scrutiny over Legionnaires' response\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"vod-poster-image vod-poster-image--embedded\" data-v-d06e322c=\"\"\/>     <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">BRONX, N.Y. &#8211; Two people have died in connection with a cluster of Legionnaires&#8217; disease.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>   2 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 continues to investigate after a second person died in connection to a cluster of Legionnaires&#8217; disease in the South Bronx.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">&#8220;We are grateful to our local elected officials who have joined us in outreach efforts as we respond quickly to cut off the exposure and investigate cases,&#8221; Health Commissioner Dr. Alister Martin wrote on X.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WNYW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">Local perspective:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">New York City health officials ordered 10 cooling towers in the South Bronx, including one at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/news\/nyc-orders-10-bronx-cooling-towers-cleaned-following-legionnaires-outbreak\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Yankee Stadium<\/a>, to be cleaned and disinfected after testing positive for Legionella bacteria.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Nearly a dozen people died in connection with the Legionnaires&#8217; cluster over the summer on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/news\/nyc-legionnaires-disease-new-strategy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Upper East Side<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Martin goes on to urge New Yorkers if they have flu-like symptoms and lives, works, or has visited ZIP codes 10451 or 10456, to see a healthcare provider immediately.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: This article includes information from New York City Health Commissioner Dr. Alister Martin&#8217;s X and 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":"BRONX, N.Y. &#8211; Two people have died in connection with a cluster of Legionnaires&#8217; disease.\u00a0 2 dead from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350025,"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-350024","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\/350024","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=350024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}