legionnaires disease outbreak opera house hotel

'We are taking all the necessary steps to make sure that we are safe, that the hotel is still a safe place to stay. The Opera House Hotel tested positive yesterday, and crews are finishing a scheduled cleaning today.

Jay Varma, deputy commmissioner at the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. So at this moment the risk of getting infected from those cooling towers has been removed for residents of the South Bronx,” said Dr. “We’ve identified five cooling towers that have the bacteria that can cause this disease, and all five of those towers have been disinfected. Tuesday, Legionella bacteria was found at Lincoln Hospital, but the hospital was not determined to be the original source of the outbreak.Ĭooling towers at five buildings have since tested positive for the bacteria, with the first four locations reported decontaminated and the fifth location expected to be cleared of the bacteria on Saturday. A fourth person has died in the outbreak of Legionnaires' Disease in the Bronx.

Legionnaires disease outbreak opera house hotel