Legionnaires' disease, Harlem
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Joyce Mack, 60, says ever since contracting Legionnaires' disease, she feels trapped in her apartment by a heavy machine that helps her breathe and in her mind by the fear of losing her life. "I watch TV all night. I will not go to sleep," she said. "I'm scared if I go to sleep, I might not wake up."
Rainwater left untreated in cooling towers atop city-owned Harlem Hospital fueled the Big Apple’s deadliest Legionnaire’s disease outbreak in a decade, the Rev. Al Sharpton charged Tuesday.
Lawsuit filed after a deadly Legionnaires' outbreak in Harlem, alleging negligence by construction firms and NYC.