Two construction workers who contracted Legionnaires’ disease while on the job in Harlem are suing over what attorney and civil rights activist Ben Crump called a “preventable outbreak” that

A sixth person has died in the Legionnaire’s disease outbreak in Central Harlem, the most deaths since a 2015 Bronx outbreak that claimed 16 lives, according to an update Thursday by the city health department.

About one in 10 people who get sick from Legionnaires' disease die from the disease due to complications from illness, CDC said.