A sixth person has died in the Legionnaires' disease cluster on Manhattan's Upper East Side, the New York City Health Department confirmed on Tuesday, even as the department reported that no new case has been diagnosed in the neighborhood since July 17.
The death was announced alongside the most complete environmental picture the city has released since the cluster began. Of 183 cooling towers tested at 160 buildings across Carnegie Hill and Yorkville, 59 towers at 58 buildings returned culture-positive results confirming live Legionella bacteria, according to the Health Department's outbreak page. All 59 have been cleaned and disinfected. Another 106 towers tested culture negative, with a small number of results still pending.
