Harlem, Legionnaires
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What are the symptoms of this type of pneumonia, called Legionnaires' disease, and how do you treat it? Here's what you need to know.
Rainwater left untreated in cooling towers atop city-owned Harlem Hospital fueled the Big Apple’s deadliest Legionnaire’s disease outbreak in a decade, the Rev. Al Sharpton charged Tuesday. Sharpton,
Officials said Monday night there has been an uptick in cases in the Legionnaires' disease cluster in Central Harlem.
Legionnaires’ disease is a rare condition, and incidence is hard to estimate because diagnosis requires a suspicion of disease and ordering of the tests needed for confirmation, said Krishna Thavarajah, MD, a pulmonologist and director of the Interstitial Lung Disease Program at Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, in an interview.