A recent cluster of Legionnaires’ disease cases in New York City has once again raised alarms in Georgia about this rare illness, recalling the state’s outbreak in 2019. The New York Times reported the Harlem outbreak is linked to contaminated cooling towers in 11 buildings and 70 people have been diagnosed with three deaths reported so far.

Legionnaires' disease is a type of pneumonia caused by bacteria that grows in warm water. It has infected 67 people in a growing cluster of disease in New York.

New York City Department of Health inspectors are fanning out across Central Harlem to inspect cooling towers amid a deadly outbreak of Legionnaires' disease. So far there have been 73 cases identified since July 25.