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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, ...
The lawsuits, filed Wednesday, claim the companies neglected safety measures, causing a "completely preventable" outbreak that has killed at least five and sickened many more. Other states making news ...
Legionnaires' disease can be contracted by breathing in tiny ... infected with the life-threatening disease while working on construction sites at or near Harlem Hospital Center. Both complaints ...
DOHMH now reports five deaths and 108 confirmed cases as of Aug. 18 in the Legionnaires’ disease outbreak in Harlem.
About one in 10 people who get sick from Legionnaires' disease die from the disease due to complications from illness, CDC ...
Two separate lawsuits have been filed over the deadly Legionnaires' disease outbreak in Harlem. Both lawsuits claim ...
The new lawsuit accuses two construction companies of negligence for failing to clear contaminated storm water from cooling ...
A pair of construction companies overlooked safety concerns, causing a “completely preventable” outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease in New York City that's killed at least five people and sickened ...
Both lawsuits claim construction companies failed to protect workers from unsafe conditions that led to the spread of the ...
Two construction workers who claim they contracted Legionnaires' disease while working at or near Harlem Hospital Center are ...
Central Harlem communities face a Legionnaires' disease cluster, with dozens contracting the bacterial pneumonia that is ...
An outbreak of Legionnaires' disease in New York was "completely preventable," civil rights attorney Ben Crump says.