Yankees Clean Stadium Cooling Tower After Legionella Find as Bronx Outbreak Sickens 10
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Updated · Bleacher Report · Sep 14
Yankees Clean Stadium Cooling Tower After Legionella Find as Bronx Outbreak Sickens 10
3 articles · Updated · Bleacher Report · Sep 14
Summary
Yankee Stadium drained and cleaned a cooling tower Sunday after city testing flagged it for Legionella bacteria during a Bronx outbreak investigation.
10 Bronx cooling towers tested positive, but the results did not show whether the bacteria were alive or whether any site caused exposure.
10 people have tested positive for Legionnaires' disease in the Bronx, with 1 death and 3 hospitalizations; the Yankees said no cases have been linked to the stadium and games were not asked to be postponed.
New York City urged anyone who lives, works or visited the area since late August and has fever, cough or breathing trouble to seek medical care quickly because early treatment is effective.