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As of 29 September, 23 people had tested positive in association with the cluster in the Melrose and Morrisania sections of the Bronx.
The Health Department says the source of the deadly South Bronx Legionnaires' cluster has been eliminated, without saying which cooling tower it was.
"Source eliminated" sounds like "source found." The city described cleaned towers and more than two weeks without new illness, not a laboratory match between a tower and a patient.
The cost sits with the 23 people who got sick, the families of the 2 who died, residents of Melrose and Morrisania living through a third cluster in roughly 14 months, and tower owners paying for monthly testing, cleaning and the compliance inspections now promised. The department can close the emergency phase before the laboratory work ends. Genome sequencing due by late fall is what would attach an address to the commissioner's accountability pledge.
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