Legionnaires' disease, New York
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The deadly Legionnaires’ outbreak gripping Harlem has city officials in hot water — as locals accused them Friday of dropping the ball on life-saving inspections and needlessly slow-walking revealing exactly where the disease hit.
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Woman with pneumonia describes symptoms amid Legionnaires' outbreak: 'My body is hurting really bad'
The symptoms of Legionnaires' disease sound similar to that of the flu. "I got the chills, I started sweating," she said. But Tribble said it didn't feel like any illness she's had before. "I have asthma. I'm scared because I don't know what's going on with my body," she said.
New York City’s ongoing outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease in Central Harlem, which has killed three people and sickened dozens more, is the latest in a series of similar clusters that have made headlines in recent years, usually in the summer months.
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