A fifth person has succumbed to a deadly vapor that has crept up on New York City.

Legionnaires’ disease, a kind of pneumonia that spreads from toxic water vapor, has also infected 108 people since the outbreak began at the end of July, according to the New York City Health Department on Monday.

The latest death was ‘under investigation for some time and our team was able to confirm this death as part of the cluster today’, stated the department.

Twelve cooling centers in Central Harlem tested positive for Legionella bacteria, which grows in warm water and can be transmitted when the liquid becomes steam. All the affected centers were drained and disinfected on Friday.

The disease was airborne at health centers, residences, various businesses and a college in Harlem, which is a neighbo

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