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

A fifth person has been killed by the Legionnaire’s disease outbreak ripping through Harlem, which has also sickened more than 100 others, health officials announced.

A fifth New Yorker has died in the Legionnaires’ disease outbreak in Harlem, city health officials said.

Legionnaires’ disease is a rare condition, and incidence is hard to estimate because diagnosis requires a suspicion of disease and ordering of the tests needed for confirmation, said Krishna Thavarajah, MD, a pulmonologist and director of the Interstitial Lung Disease Program at Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, in an interview.