A cooling tower at Harlem Hospital was among 12 sites tied to the city’s Legionnaires’ disease outbreak that’s now killed four people and sickened nearly 100, Department of Health officials said Thursday.

The city’s Central Harlem Sexual Health Clinic, the NYC Economic Development Corporation and CUNY’s Marshak Science Building also all had cooling towers that needed to be scrubbed clean, officials said at a press conference.

Overall, 10 sites that potentially exposed people to Legionnaires’ disease were listed by officials after they initially refused to pinpoint where the towers were located. 5

Instead, the health department offered five ZIP codes in central Harlem — 10027, 10030, 10035, 10037, 10039 – that were at the center of the cluster, as officials stressed the disease wa

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