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Legionnaires’ disease: Bronx sites that have tested positive for legionella

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Streamline Plastics in the Bronx, seen on Aug. 7, 2015, is one of the buildings where the cooling tower tested positive for Legionnaires’ disease. Photo Credit: Anthony Lanzilote
  • Lincoln Medical Center in the Bronx, seen on Aug. 7, 2015, is one of several buildings where the cooling tower tested positive for Legionnaires' disease.
    Photo Credit: Anthony Lanzilote
  • Lincoln Medical Center in the Bronx, seen on Aug. 7, 2015, is one of the buildings where the cooling tower tested positive for Legionnaires' disease, according to officials.
    Photo Credit: Anthony Lanzilote
  • Streamline Plastics in the Bronx, seen on Aug. 7, 2015, is one of the buildings where the cooling tower tested positive for Legionnaires' disease.
    Photo Credit: Anthony Lanzilote
  • Streamline Plastics in the Bronx, seen on Aug. 7, 2015, is one of the buildings where the cooling tower tested positive for Legionnaires' disease.
    Photo Credit: Anthony Lanzilote
  • Streamline Plastics in the Bronx, seen on Aug. 7, 2015, is one of the buildings where the cooling tower tested positive for Legionnaires' disease.
    Photo Credit: Anthony Lanzilote
  • The Opera House Hotel in the Bronx, seen on Aug. 7, 2015, is one of several buildings where the cooling tower tested positive for Legionnaires' disease.
    Photo Credit: Anthony Lanzilote
  • The Opera House Hotel in the Bronx, seen on Aug. 7, 2015, is one of several buildings where the cooling tower tested positive for Legionnaires' disease.
    Photo Credit: Anthony Lanzilote
  • The Opera House Hotel in the Bronx, seen on Aug. 7, 2015, is one of several buildings where the cooling tower tested positive for Legionnaires' disease.
    Photo Credit: Anthony Lanzilote
  • Concourse Plaza in the Bronx, seen on Aug. 7, 2015, is one of the several buildings where a cooling tower tested positive for Legionnaires' disease.
    Photo Credit: Anthony Lanzilote
  • Concourse Plaza in the Bronx, seen on Aug. 7, 2015, is one of the several buildings where a cooling tower tested positive for Legionnaires' disease.
    Photo Credit: Anthony Lanzilote
  • A Verizon phone company building in the Bronx, seen on Aug. 7, 2015, is one of several buildings where the cooling tower tested positive for Legionnaires' disease.
    Photo Credit: Anthony Lanzilote
  • A Verizon phone company building in the Bronx, seen on Aug. 7, 2015, is one of several buildings where the cooling tower tested positive for Legionnaires' disease.
    Photo Credit: Anthony Lanzilote

Twelve people have died and 113 people have been infected in the outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease in the Bronx.

Here are the sites confirmed by the Department of Health that have have tested positive for for legionella, the bacteria that causes the disease, and have been cleaned.

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