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.
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