The number of people diagnosed with Legionnaires disease has risen to 108 as America's largest city suffers from a record outbreak of the form of pneumonia, authorities said Saturday. No new deaths have been reported on top of the 10 announced earlier in the week and officials say the outbreak is now on the decline.
To date, 94 people have been admitted to the hospital with the infection since the outbreak began on July 10 in the south Bronx, the poorest section of New York state, AFP reports.
Officials believe the cause of the outbreak came from bacteria in one of the cooling towers of five buildings in the South Bronx, which has since been cleaned and disinfected.