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Victims of the deadly Legionnaires’ disease outbreak gripping Harlem will sue the Big Apple for allegedly letting bacteria fester in city-owned cooling towers, it was announced Wednesday.
About one in 10 people who get sick from Legionnaires' disease die from the disease due to complications from illness, CDC ...
As health officials investigate the cause, News 12 took a look at the latest inspections of cooling towers, specifically in ...
A law firm filed a lawsuit Aug. 20 against a New York City hospital’s construction company, alleging the company failed to treat bacteria-infected water in its cooling towers, leading to a ...
An outbreak of Legionnaires' disease in New York was "completely preventable," civil rights attorney Ben Crump says.
Two construction workers who claim they contracted Legionnaires' disease while working at or near Harlem Hospital Center are ...
HealthDay News — A Legionnaires’ disease outbreak in Central Harlem has now caused four deaths and sickened 101 people, New York City health officials confirmed. The bacteria that cause the illness, ...
Both lawsuits claim construction companies failed to protect workers from unsafe conditions that led to the spread of the ...
A 2015 outbreak of Legionnaires' disease, traced to a cooling tower at a hotel, forced New York City to address a problem ...
The new lawsuit accuses two construction companies of negligence for failing to clear contaminated storm water from cooling ...
Gov. Kathy Hochul's administration must launch its own probe into New York City's handling of the deadly Legionnaires' ...
Two construction workers who were infected with Legionnaires’ disease after a ‘completely preventable’ outbreak occurred in ...