disease which is a type of pneumonia. people get sick from breathing in water vapor. you don t get it from drinking waterment it s not contagious. 101 people have been diagnosed with legionnaire s in the south bronx. ten people have died. the latest case a gas plant worker in rockland county 50 miles away from the bronx was diagnosed with the disease on friday. the cdc says 18,000 people are infected with legionnaire s every year. over 500 in new york. it s rare so many in one community have contracted it like here in the south bronx. this summer s weather could be the blame. the humidity weather, there s sometimes it s cloud cover will change it a little bit. ultraviolet light helps to get rid of the particles. sometimes grow more. last summer maybe one particular tower didn t have that much legionellae in it. the weather currents you never