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People walk in an area of the Bronx which is the center of the outbreak
Legionnaires disease on August 6, 2015 in New York City. © Spencer Platt / AFP
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The number of
people infected in New York’s worst-ever Legionnaires’ disease outbreak has
reached 124, according to mayor office. Five new cases
of the acute infectious lung disease have been registered in the city since
Friday, the administration of Bill de Blasio said, adding that it can take
several days for reports of Legionnaires’ to reach the health department.
RT US report continues:
All of the latest patients fell sick prior to August 3, with no new
diagnoses having been made since then, it stressed.
The five new Legionnaires’ cases appeared in the South Bronx, the same
place where the previous cases were registered, the administration said.
“Health officials remain confident that one or more of the five
locations that initially tested positive was the source of the outbreak, and
that through disinfection of the source, the outbreak has been contained,”
according to a statement by the mayor’s office as cited by BNO News.
Twelve patients have died and 94 were successfully treated in the
recent outbreak
The majority of those, who contracted Legionnaires’ disease, or
legionellosis, were elderly people, who also suffered from other illnesses.
Legionnaires’ disease is an atypical form of pneumonia, which affects
lungs, nervous, and digestive systems, and is characterized by fever and
general intoxification.
The disease is lethal in 20 percent of cases, mainly due to
difficulties in diagnosis.
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