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Rainwater left untreated in cooling towers atop city-owned Harlem Hospital fueled the Big Apple’s deadliest Legionnaire’s ...
A 2015 outbreak of Legionnaires' disease, traced to a cooling tower at a hotel, forced New York City to address a problem ...
New York City officials have discovered a sixth death linked to a Legionnaires’ disease outbreak in Central Harlem, where ...
Lawsuits filed this week in New York City accuse construction companies of overlooking safety concerns that led to a deadly ...
A sixth person has died in the Legionnaire’s disease outbreak in Central Harlem, the most deaths since a 2015 Bronx outbreak ...
Victims of the deadly Legionnaires’ disease outbreak gripping Harlem will sue the Big Apple for allegedly letting bacteria ...
In New York City, for example, only 1,200 cooling towers were inspected in the first six months of 2025, a steep drop-off from 2017 when the city had checked more than 5,000 over the same period.
An outbreak of Legionnaires' disease in New York was "completely preventable," civil rights attorney Ben Crump says.
Two construction workers who were infected with Legionnaires’ disease after a ‘completely preventable’ outbreak occurred in ...
Eight 375ft-tall cooling towers crashed to the ground yesterday in the largest simultaneous demolition of its kind. Hundreds of people watched the structures’ tumble at Cottam Power Station in ...