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Manhattan buildings must clean cooling towers amid Legionnaires' outbreak
The NYC Department of Health has ordered multiple buildings on Manhattan's Upper East Side to clean and disinfect rooftop cooling towers amid a Legionnaires' Disease outbreak. As of Wednesday, 36 cases of the bacterial infection have been reported.
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