Cooling towers spraying mist contaminated with Legionella have caused Legionnaires' Disease outbreaks and seem to be the culprit for this latest outbreak in Central Harlem, New York City. (Photo By: James Keivom/NY Daily News via Getty Images) NY Daily News via Getty Images

This is what can happen when bad stuff in mist gets, well, missed. A Legionnaires’ disease outbreak in New York City has already left at least 70 people sick and three dead. All of these cases have been occurring in Central Harlem, which made the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene suspect that something was amiss about the mist being emitted by the cooling towers in the area. Testing of 11 cooling towers there subsequently revealed the presence of Legionella pneumophila bacteria, which the NYC

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