This is a guest essay for Healthbeat. Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeat’s free national newsletter here. New York City is experiencing its second-largest outbreak of Legionnaires ...

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Fifty-eight people have been infected—and two have died—in a New York City outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease—a severe type of pneumonia caused by a bacterium commonly associated with air-conditioning ...