Legionnaires’ — United States
One person who contracted legionnaires’ disease amid a cluster of cases in the Morris Park section of the Bronx has died, the authorities said on [Wed 30 Sep 2015], as health officials ordered cooling towers infected with the bacteria to be cleaned. 13 people in the area, all of whom had serious underlying medical conditions, began to experience symptoms in September [2015]. The disease is caused by legionella bacteria, which inspectors discovered in recent days in 15 nearby cooling towers on
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