Skip to main contentSkip to navigation Close dialogue1/1 Next image Previous image Toggle caption This 1978 electron microscope image made available by the CDC shows the Legionella pneumophila bacterium, responsible for causing legionnaires' disease. Photograph: Francis Chandler/CDC/AP View image in fullscreen This 1978 electron microscope image made available by the CDC shows the Legionella pneumophila bacterium, responsible for causing legionnaires' disease. Photograph: Francis Chandler/CDC/AP Legionnaires’ outbreak rocks New York as experts warn of rising climate threatOfficials say climate crisis ‘worsening our exposure’ to bacteria as at least 28 people sickened in Manhattan A New York outbreak of legionnaires’ disease, a rare but severe form of pneumonia, highlights the microbe’s growing and disproportionate impacts in a warming climate.At least 28 people have been sickened in an outbreak on the Upper East Side, a wealthy neighborhood between Central Park and the East River in Manhattan. Health department officials, seeking to stop the outbreak, have sampled water from nearly 160 building cooling towers to test for the bacteria.“This is now a subtropical climate,” said Dr Alister Martin, the commissioner of the New York City health department. “It is absolutely true that climate change is worsening our exposure and increasing the propensity for legionnaires’ disease clusters like we’re seeing today.”Martin said the city has taken an “aggressive” approach to the outbreak, even as the…
Published: July 9, 2026 2:01 pm
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