The bacteria was found in the hot water system.
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Four of the buildings of the Melrose Houses has tested positive for Legionella pneumophilia bacteria.
New York City health officials are reporting a small cluster of Legionnaires’ cases at the Melrose Houses in the South Bronx. Test results at Melrose House are as follows: 681 Cortlandt Avenue, 304, 346, and 320 E. 156th Street all tested positive, 700 Morris Avenue, 286 E. 156th Street, 281, 305, and 321 E. 153rd Street all tested negative.
The city’s deadliest-ever Legionnaires’ disease outbreak earlier this summer killed 12 people and sickened 116 others in the South Bronx.
Meanwhile, officials assured people that the water was safe to drink. “He got all types of tubes and stuff”. The previous three were treated and released.
De Blasio said it is well known that an opening the fact that the bacteria might’ve came from the Opera House Hotel in the Bronx, …
De Blasio downplayed the new case, stressing that the positive test result for Legionella bacteria was “very faint” and that the city was carrying forth its cleanup efforts out of “an abundance of caution”.
Although the city declared an end to the outbreak on August 20, de Blasio said it was still possible that the newly infected person had gotten sick from the cooling tower at the Opera House Hotel that contained Legionella bacteria.
Prior to the recent outbreak, no city records were kept as to which buildings had cooling towers.
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It can not be spread person-to-person and those at highest risk for contracting the illness include the elderly, cigarette smokers, people with chronic lung or immune system disease and those receiving immunosuppressive drugs.
