纽约市军团菌病疫情已造成第5例死亡 [1]。疫情已导致超过60人患病 [1]，其中56人已出院，目前仍有8人住院 [1]。
市卫生部门在33栋建筑的34座冷却塔中确认了军团菌的存在，这些冷却塔均正在清洁消毒中 [1]。此外，82座冷却塔所在的80栋建筑也已接受清洁消毒处理 [1]。过去10天内未发现新患者 [1]。
为应对疫情，纽约市卫生部门在2025年前六个月内进行了近1600次冷却塔检查，较2024年同期增加35% [1]。市卫生部门计划聘用23名额外的军团菌水生态学家和主管（2024年11月获批），使总人数达到56人，目前编制人数为35人 [1]。
A fifth person has died in a Legionnaires' disease outbreak affecting New York City, with more than sixty cases identified overall [1]. The city's health department has confirmed the presence of the bacterium in 34 cooling towers across 33 buildings, all of which are undergoing cleaning and disinfection [1].
Despite the scale of the outbreak, no new cases have been reported in the past ten days [1]. Currently, eight patients remain hospitalized while fifty-six have been discharged [1].
The health department has expanded its response efforts significantly. Inspectors conducted nearly 1,600 cooling tower inspections during the first six months of 2025, representing a 35 percent increase compared to the same period in 2024 [1]. Additionally, eighty-two cooling towers across eighty buildings have been cleaned and disinfected [1]. The department received approval in November 2024 to hire twenty-three additional Legionella aquatic ecologists and supervisors, bringing the total staff dedicated to this area to fifty-six personnel, up from the current thirty-five [1].
Legionnaires' disease has a fatality rate of approximately 10 percent [1].