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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Philip Marcelo

Guggenheim Museum among NYC buildings that tested positive for Legionnaires’ amid disease outbreak

Legionnaires Outbreak NYC - (Copyright 2011 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

New York City’s famed Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum was among a number of Manhattan buildings that recently tested positive for the bacteria that causes Legionnaires’ disease amid the city’s latest outbreak.

The city health department on Friday released a list of 31 buildings on the Upper East Side that have been ordered to clean and disinfect their cooling towers as the city deals with the latest outbreak of the disease, which is a serious form of pneumonia.

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