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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Julia Musto

Legionnaire’s disease is spreading through New York — and now impacting a world-famous museum

An outbreak of deadly Legionnaires’ disease that’s sickened 63 people across New York now has impacted a world-famous museum.

The Big Apple’s Metropolitan Museum of Art – which can see more than 33,000 visitors in a single day – is one of 76 of Upper East Side buildings that have been ordered to clean their cooling towers because of the spread.

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