Several buildings housing government programs are among those where water-cooling towers have tested positive for Legionella amid an investigation into the source of the Legionnaires’ disease outbreak in Central Harlem, the city health department revealed Thursday.
That includes CUNY City College’s Marshak Science Building at 181 Convent Ave., the NYC Economic Development Corp. at 40 West 137th St., and the city health department’s Central Harlem Sexual Health Clinic at 2238 Fifth Ave.
Harlem Hospital, a city-run medical center where many Legionnaires’ patients in the current outbreak have been treated, also tested positive.
City officials said they are still working to confirm which specific cooling tower caused the current outbreak, which has so far sickened 92 people and killed three