The New York City Legionnaires' disease outbreak in Central Harlem is growing. Is it contagious? How do you get it? What Kentucky needs to know.

Two people have died and more than 50 others have reported illness from a Legionnaires' disease cluster in New York City. Known for causing sickness in confined areas and places that share water systems, Legionnaires' has been known to cause mass illness in hotels, hospitals, prisons and housing blocks.

Fifty-eight people have been infected—and two have died—in a New York City outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease—a severe type of pneumonia caused by a bacterium commonly associated with air-conditioning