Watch Live: Mayor Adams gives update on Harlem Legionnaires' disease outbreak
You can watch that update live on CBS News New York in the video player above.
Earlier this week, Department of Health officials said there were 90 confirmed cases, which includes three deaths.
The DOH said some 17 people were hospitalized as of Monday.
The Legionnaires' cases have been clustered around five Central Harlem zip codes: 10027, 10030, 10035, 10037 and 10039.
Officials have been urging residents in the area with flu-like symptoms to see their health care provider and not just assume it's a cold.
Officials said they traced the outbreak back to 11 buildings, saying the cooling towers atop them were the source of the outbreak. The infected towers have been given antibacterial treatments to help stop the spread of the Legionella bacteria at the root of the outbreak.
City officials have since proposed stricter rules regarding cooling towers to boost testing and reporting requirements, and imposing penalties for those who don't comply.
Officials say Legionnaires' is a potentially deadly form of pneumonia. Legionella bacteria grows in warm, stagnant water and spreads through mist in the air. There's no person to person transmission.
Symptoms of Legionnaires' disease can resemble the flu, including cough, fever, chills, muscle aches and shortness of breath. It can take up to two weeks for symptoms to show up. People over 50 and smokers are at greater risk.
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