Both lawsuits claim construction companies failed to protect workers from unsafe conditions that led to the spread of the disease.

A sixth person has died from Legionnaires’ disease connected to the outbreak in Central Harlem, health officials announced on Wednesday. The patient died outside of New York City earlier this month. The city’s health department reported that 111 people have been affected by the disease,

A sixth person has died in a Harlem Legionnaires’ disease outbreak, health officials said Thursday. The city’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene said there have now been 111 confirmed cases of the disease — and that seven people are currently hospitalized. None of the dead have been identified. A fifth person died earlier this week.

A fifth person has died as a result of the Legionnaires’ disease outbreak in Harlem, which has sickened more than 100, health officials said.

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

Rainwater left untreated in cooling towers atop city-owned Harlem Hospital fueled the Big Apple’s deadliest Legionnaire’s disease outbreak in a decade, the Rev. Al Sharpton charged Tuesday.

Two construction workers are suing over workplace safety after being hospitalized with Legionnaires’ disease amid a deadly outbreak in central Harlem. Their illnesses came after working near a Harlem Hospital Center cooling tower that tested positive for the bacteria that causes the disease.