A recent increase in Legionnaires' disease cases has been seen by Public Health Dayton & Montgomery County. “We had 18 cases reported in June and 18 in July,” said Dr. Thomas Herchline. “The year total is 40, which is higher than we've had it in the
(NBCNEWYORK) — Five more cases of Legionnaires' disease have been added to the Bronx outbreak that has claimed seven lives and sickened more than six dozen people in the last three weeks, Mayor de Blasio said Tuesday. The number of those killed
Four decades ago it was one of medicine's greatest mysteries, devastating a group of convention goers with shocking speed and leaving scientists scratching their heads about its cause. Now Legionnaires' disease is back in the news, having killed seven
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio holds up a chart documenting the cases of Legionnaires' disease while speaking to reporters at Lincoln Hospital in the Bronx borough of New York, Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2015. The death toll from an outbreak of Legionnaires'
Seven people have died and 86 have been sickened in a Legionnaires' disease outbreak in South Bronx, N.Y., according to The New York Times.