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Legionnaires’ disease has hit the Upper East Side with 18 confirmed cases, concentrated in ZIP codes around Carnegie Hill, Yorkville, and Lenox Hill — plus anyone who visited the east side of Central Park between 76th and 97th Streets since late June. Caused by inhaling contaminated water droplets, not person-to-person transmission, symptoms include fever, chills, and cough. Officials are testing cooling towers, and while no deaths have occurred and tap water is safe, high-risk folks should avoid stagnant water and mist-producing humidifiers. Legal experts are raising alarms over potential landlord negligence and lax city enforcement on cooling tower inspections — a troubling pattern that may signal deeper systemic failures.

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