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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 ...
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.
Both lawsuits claim construction companies failed to protect workers from unsafe conditions that led to the spread of the ...
An outbreak of Legionnaires' disease in New York was "completely preventable," civil rights attorney Ben Crump says.
A new lawsuit is accusing a construction company of neglecting to clean stormwater from the cooling towers behind the deadly ...
The death toll in New York’s ongoing outbreak of Legionnaires' disease in Central Harlem has risen to five, as more people ...
About one in 10 people who get sick from Legionnaires' disease die from the disease due to complications from illness, CDC said.
Two construction workers are suing over workplace safety after being hospitalized with Legionnaires’ disease amid a deadly ...
The Legionnaires' disease outbreak in Central Harlem has been traced to 12 cooling towers, including several at city-run ...
The health department offered five ZIP codes in central Harlem — 10027, 10030, 10035, 10037, 10039 – that were at the center ...
Two construction workers who claim they contracted Legionnaires' disease while working at or near Harlem Hospital Center are suing contractors they allege failed to safeguard water cooling towers at ...