Legionnaires’ outbreak rocks New York as experts warn of rising climate threat

According to The Guardian, health officials in New York are racing to contain an outbreak of Legionnaires' disease, a rare but severe form of pneumonia, that has sickened at least twenty-eight people on Manhattan's Upper East Side. To trace the source, the city's health department has sampled water from nearly one hundred sixty building cooling towers, where the bacteria can thrive. Officials frame the outbreak as part of a broader pattern, warning that the climate crisis is worsening human exposure to the microbe as the world warms.

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