and they need to be aware of what s going on and do things they can to protect themselves. we heard the health department say that this outbreak is not related to the last month s outbreak but they are both in the bronx. is this just a coincidence? well, you know, there s a couple of things that are probably going on here. one is each year in new york city there are two or 300 cases of legionnaire s disease and there s no part of the city that is more tuned in right now bronx. so they are testing people, they will pick up an outbreak that some areas may have what the health department is doing now is they are looking to see is there something that connects these people. the deputy commissioner said these people do not live in the same building but they either lived or had visited the morris park area so they will look to see their connection, towers. hoping to get a bacteria islet from one of these patients so they can match it to a cooling tower and figure out what s goi