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Mayor Zohran Mamdani insisted the Legionnaires\u2019 outbreak was under control Wednesday as he faced\u00a0mounting questions over his administration\u2019s response\u00a0while the deal\u00a0toll climbed to five with more than 80 people becoming infected.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\u201cI\u2019m frankly less interested in the politics of it all, more in the public health of it,\u201d Mamdani quipped during an unrelated press conference after being asked about City Council Speaker Julie Menin\u2019s criticism of his Department of Health\u2019s handling of the outbreak in a recent op-ed for The Post.<\/p>\n

Families of the five New Yorkers who died and the 82 who were sickened \u201cdeserve \u2026 real answers\u201d from City Hall, Menin fumed.<\/p>\n

She charged that DOH officials \u201cfailed New York\u201d by not proactively disinfecting cooling towers in Upper Manhattan, where the cluster of cases has spread. <\/p>\n

The flu-like illness is caused by breathing in mist or water drops with Legionella bacteria, and can lead to severe lung infections that can be more dangerous for the elderly, smokers and those with weakened immune systems.<\/p>\n

Health Commissioner Dr. Alister Martin said the city thinks it has \u201celiminated\u201d the origin of the outbreak by treating cooling towers in the Upper East Side cluster area. But officials have yet to publicly identify the source, saying DNA sequencing is still pending.<\/p>\n

DOH officials said that of those infected since the outbreak started on the Upper East Side last month, 21 people currently have the disease and more eight remain hospitalized.<\/p>\n

\u201cFurthermore, we believe that we have now eliminated the source of the initial cluster. There has been no one with new symptoms reported in more than 10 days and no new diagnoses in a week,\u201d Martin said.<\/p>\n

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Mamdani defended his approach, saying that public health experts told him that pre-emptively disinfecting could hurt the city\u2019s ability to mitigate high risk cooling towers and could weaken their ability to protect against the disease in the future. Over using disinfectants can cause corrosion and damage the equipment as well potentially disrupting cooling systems during the summer heat.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want this to be a city where it\u2019s clear that the guidance, the actions, the information that we share with New Yorkers \u2014 it\u2019s not without any political incentive in mind, but rather a public health incentive,\u201d Mamdani insisted.<\/p>\n

DOH officials said that blanket water tower remediation could take resources away from mitigating high risk ones or have unintended consequences like shutting cooling systems down during high temperature days.<\/p>\n

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But Menin, a Manhattan Democrat, said her office has heard from hundreds of New Yorkers worried about the health and safety of their families and neighbors since the outbreak began.<\/p>\n

\u201c[Menin] has advocated for them in calling for the most rapid and robust public health response possible and arranging an oversight hearing on proposals to better contain future outbreaks.\u201d a spokesperson said in a statement.<\/p>\n

The speaker had also criticized the health department\u2019s approach when there was a Legionnaires\u2019 disease outbreak in Harlem last year under then-Mayor Eric Adams that resulted in seven deaths and more than 100 cases.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis has nothing to do with politics, and Speaker Menin\u2019s recent statements are consistent with her advocacy during last year\u2019s Legionnaires\u2019 outbreak in Harlem,\u201d the spokesperson stated.<\/p>\n

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