The Opera House Hotel, which had been repurposed from a theater in a multi-million-dollar renovation completed in 2013, now plans to test every 30 days as a precaution. The hotel operators called the findings “disappointing” and said they conducted regular inspections, though did not specifically test for Legionella. The hotel was cleaned and disinfected August 1, officials say. Inspections turned up Legionella in a total of 18 towers citywide, but officials suspected the disease had come from the initial group of contaminated towers. The city tested 25 people, including some who died, and all traced back to the hotel’s strain. The Opera House Hotel was one of the first five cooling towers that tested positive for the bacteria. Officials also confirmed that the Opera House Hotel, on East 149 th Street in the South Bronx, was the source of the Legionella strain that killed 12 and sickened more than 120 people. The disease has an incubation period of two to 10 days. There have been no new reported cases since August 3, New York City health officials said Thursday. The Legionnaires’ outbreak that has plagued the South Bronx since July 10 is over.
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