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Map: These 33 Upper East Side buildings tested positive for live Legionella

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These are the impacted buildings.

New York City on Tuesday released a list of 33 addresses where 34 cooling towers were found to contain live Legionella, the bacteria responsible for that deadly outbreak on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. The results show that there may not be a particular source that started the outbreak, but rather multiple sources could have contributed to it. The cooling towers that tested positive for the live bacteria have been fully cleaned, the Health...

New York City on Tuesday released a list of 33 addresses where 34 cooling towers were found to contain live Legionella, the bacteria responsible for that deadly outbreak on Manhattan’s Upper East Side.

The results show that there may not be a particular source that started the outbreak, but rather multiple sources could have contributed to it.

The cooling towers that tested positive for the live bacteria have been fully cleaned, the Health Department said. The department said it would continue to update the addresses on its website as appropriate.

Upper East Side Legionnaires’ Outbreak

Zip codes highlighted below have been identified as part of the Legionnaires’ disease community cluster on the Upper East Side. Red circles identify buildings that have tested positive for live Legionella bacteria.

Source: NYC Health • Map: Annetta Stogniew

Full list of impacted addresses

These are the addresses that tested positive for live Legionella bacteria:

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