NYC unveils new Legionnaires' disease strategy after 11 died in Upper East Side outbreak

With Dueling Plans, Mamdani and NYC Council Tackle Legionnaires’ Prevention

This story was originally published by Healthbeat. Sign up for their public health newsletters at healthbeat.org/newsletters. The Mamdani administration and City Council are laying out dueling plans to prevent future Legionnaires’ outbreaks after the pneumonia-like illness left nearly a dozen dead and scores of others sickened on the Upper East Side this summer. They might […] The post With Dueling Plans, Mamdani and NYC Council Tackle Legionnai…

‘A long recovery’: A survivor shares her arduous recovery amid Legionnaires’ outbreak

  Melinda Baron has a story for New Yorkers worried about the Upper East Side Legionnaires’ outbreak: She survived after contracting the disease seven years ago and is grateful for the outcome, but spent many months on the mend. New York City health officials say 89 people have tested positive for the Legionella bacterium. Seventy-one The post ‘A long recovery’: A survivor shares her arduous recovery amid Legionnaires’ outbreak appeared first on…

Mamdani unveils new measures to halt Legionnaires’ after outbreak kills 11

Aerial view of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Central Park and the Upper East side of Manhattan. The initiatives come ahead of a City Council hearing on the administration’s Legionnaires’ response. [ more › ]

City unveils new Legionnaires' response measures after deadly outbreak

Eleven people died in connection with the outbreak on the Upper East Side this summer, officials sad.

NYC unveils new Legionnaires' disease strategy after 11 died in Upper East Side outbreak

Mayor Zohran Mamdani said New York City is changing how it tests for and prevents Legionnaires' disease after deadly outbreaks on the Upper East Side and in Central Harlem.

My Mom Was a Legionnaires' Expert. That Didn't Save Her From the Outbreak

The disease that devastated my family—and dozens of other New Yorkers this summer—was not some unavoidable tragedy, but the direct result of a series of failures that have persisted in municipal government for years.