Department of Health

Metropolis councilmembers grilled native well being officers over the Mamdani administration’s response to a lethal Legionnaires’ illness outbreak on the Higher East Facet this summer season that killed 11 individuals …

Metropolis well being officers have detected practically twice as many mosquito samples with West Nile virus up to now this yr in comparison with the identical time final yr, the …

Attorneys and households of dozens of Legionnaires’ illness victims from final summer season’s Harlem outbreak are suing town and a number of other contractors they allege failed to keep up …

New York Metropolis well being officers stated Friday that the lethal outbreak of Legionnaires’ illness, killing seven individuals on the Higher East Aspect, is over.  Well being Commissioner Alister Martin …

This story was initially printed by Healthbeat. Join their newsletters at healthbeat.org/e-newsletters. Melinda Baron has a narrative for New Yorkers nervous about the Higher East Facet Legionnaires’ outbreak: She survived after contracting the …

Greater than a 3rd of positions within the well being division unit devoted to testing town’s water provide for the Legionella bactria are unfilled, The Metropolis Reporter has realized, as …

The union representing town’s public well being professionals and scientists says that items devoted to testing town’s water provide are critically understaffed — complicating New York’s means to manage a …