Sentences with phrase «now legionnaires»

«What we have seen I think from Ebola last fall to whooping cough in Brooklyn earlier this year, to tuberculosis in Sunset Park, to now Legionnaires» in the Bronx, is we have the best health department in the country, and the best outreach in the country.

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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio says 12 people have now died from a Legionnaires» disease outbreak.

There are now 113 reported cases of Legionnaires» in the Bronx, and cooling towers in 18 buildings have tested positive for the legionella bacteria, officials said.

For more than a month now, cases of Legionnaires» — a form of pneumonia especially dangerous for the elderly and for people with underlying health issues — have been reported throughout a section of the South Bronx, the city's poorest neighborhood.

Legislation passed in the wake of that outbreak requires building owners to register their cooling towers with the city, and City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito said members would now see if there are any additional steps they can take to help guard against future cases of Legionnaires» disease.

In Flushing there are now fourteen cases of Legionnaires» disease in that cluster first reported earlier this week.

In City Hall's Blue Room, Mr. de Blasio was sitting alongside Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito, Health Commissioner Dr. Mary Bassett, and other top officials to outline legislation to create a system that would register, inspect and clean the cooling towers atop buildings across the city — which were ground zero for a deadly outbreak of Legionnaires» disease in the South Bronx that has now killed 12 people.

«It is encouraging that so many people who did contract this illness have been treated and discharged,» Mr. de Blasio said at a City Hall press conference, even as he announced there are now 100 confirmed cases of Legionnaires» and 10 deaths in the last month.

With the outbreak contained, Mr. de Blasio said attention was now turning on how to prevent future outbreaks of Legionnaires» disease with legislation that will require inspections and cleaning of cooling towers — an area where he and Mr. Cuomo had originally sparred but have now landed on the same page.

Now they are social as well: growing income inequality in the U.S. has led to rising rates of hepatitis A, Legionnaires» disease and other scourges.