City health officials are advising residents of an East Village apartment complex to take precautions after two residents contracted Legionnaires’ disease there within the last 11 months.
The advisory went out Tuesday in a Zoom call arranged by the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) in which the agency revealed that two tenants in one of the five buildings in the Haven Plaza complex had been diagnosed with the potentially deadly disease within the last year — one in June and the other early this month.
The Legionella bacteria is transmitted via inhalation of water vapor, causing pneumonia-like symptoms that can be treated if caught in time…