Guggenheim museum in New York City tests positive for legionnaires’ disease

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Famed art museum, one of 31 buildings to test positive, has already completed remediation, health department says New York City’s famed Solomon R Guggenheim Museum was among a number of Manhattan buildings that recently tested positive for the bacteria that causes legionnaires’ disease. The city health department on Friday released a list of 31 buildings on the Upper East Side that have been ordered to clean and disinfect their cooling towers as the city deals with the latest outbreak of the disease, which is a serious form of pneumonia. Continue reading...