One person who contracted Legionnaires’ disease in an outbreak in the Bronx neighborhood of Morris Park (unrelated to this summer’s) has died, authorities said Wednesday. Health officials specify exactly when the death occurred, although the number of confirmed cases in the area grew from 10 on Tuesday to 13.

According to CBS New York, eleven people have been hospitalized and one discharged. All had underlying health conditions, officials said, and contracted the disease before September 21st.

The earlier outbreak, in July and August, stemming from a contaminated cooling tower on top of a hotel, killed 12 people and sickened more than 120 in the South Bronx.

The current outbreak, however, is “different than what we experienced a couple of weeks back in the South Bronx,” Mayor Bill de Blasio reassured citizens on Wednesday. “This is a much more limited situation.”

There are around 200 to 300 cases of Legionnaires’ disease in New York City every year, the New York Times reports. Concentrated outbreaks are more rare


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