announcer: it s 10:00 p.m. do you announcer: it s 10:00 p.m. do you know where your children are? right now on fox 5 news at 10:00 p.m. dari: dire warnings about legionnaires disease after 100 cases in 10 deaths have been reported. the city officials are doing to get that outbreak under control. we are going to start seeing them disinfecting cooling towers across the city. the cdc is also sending in a team to investigate. arthur has more. reporter: that s right, such a long incubation period that is involved. city officials believe that the numbers continue to go up even though they believe it s under control. three additional cases identified, two additional deaths reported. a total of 100 cases in 10 deaths. reporter: the unprecedented outbreak of the legionnaires has reached triple digits in cases and double digits in lives claimed. now that the source has been treated, in the south bronx would have filled a larger proportion of patients than usual. the sense of al
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announcer: it s 10:00 p.m. do you know where your children are? right now on fox 5 news at 10:00 p.m. dari: legionnaires disease has been detected in another location in our area. a worker from rockland county has contracted the disease. sky sox is over the plant where the person worked. this is breaking tonight. we have no word if this patient in rockland county had any contact in the south bronx. that is where more than 100 cases of legionnaires disease has been found. sky fox flew over the corporation tonight. there is no evidence that the unidentified worker contracted to bear. a company spokesperson says that the cooling towers on the roof were treated to kill any potential bacteria and we did confirm activity at about 8:00 p.m. tonight on the real. in the meantime the cdc is there to help with the outbreak and arthur has more. reporter: that s right, at least 500 legionnaires cases have been reported. the city. optimism is the word that public officials have been
risen to 108. meantime, the state is also now involved in trying to curb this outbreak. state employees plan on testing 100 cooling towers in the bronx today. today governor cuomo dispatched approximately 150 state workers to test cooling towers on buildings all across the bronx for the bacteria that causes legionnaires disease. new york state health commissioner, dr. howard zucker. i d like to see those numbers go to zero and that we have no cases, no other mortalities. the pneumonia-like illness has already taken ten lives and sickened more than a hundred others in the south bronx. five towers have tested positive, and in a press conference this afternoon, the mayor explained the difficulty in tackling the outbreak which began three weeks ago. when this began, no one, understandably, had reason to think that cough might be something much worse, that shortness of breath might be something much worse because we had never had such an outbreak before. city officials ar
right now on fox 5 news at 10 but we do know clearly we ve had no new cases reported in the last four days. some encouraging words from mayor de blasio who says the city s deadly legionnaires outbreak has been contained. hello and good evening, everyone, i m christina park. antwan has the night off. the mayor announced no new deaths from the legionnaires outbreak in the south bronx, even though five additional buildings tested positive for this potentially deadly bacteria. all this while state health officials have sent out crews to test cooling towers in the infected areas. lydia she ran knew is in the norwood section of the bronx, a lot of people worried out there tonight, lydia. absolutely, christina. the cooling tower here at the hospital is one of about 100 state employees tested. now, this is, obviously, a huge outbreak that s been happening, so 108 cases have been reported so far. so that s gone up. now we have ten infected buildings, all of which have been