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Barbara Luray is the president of the Fort Independence Houses in the Bronx and she says she’s afraid to use the water in her bathroom after two cases of Legionnaires’ disease were confirmed in her building.
“I don’t know what to tell my families,” Luray said. “Don’t bathe. Don’t shower. Animals live better than this.”
