San Diego’s Hepatitis Outbreak Is A Man-Made Disaster (16 dead)

huffpost ^ | 9/19/17 updated | Dana Liebelson, Lauren Weber

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Hepatitis A, spread by fecal contamination, has killed 16 people and sickened 421 since November.

An outbreak of hepatitis A, a dangerous but preventable disease that is spread through fecal contamination and attacks the liver, has gotten so out of hand
in San Diego that the county government is handing out plastic poop bags and washing the streets with bleach. (Emphasis mine)

The outbreak has killed 16 people and infected 421 since November, ravaging San Diego’s large homeless and illicit drug-using population.
It could eventually cost the county health department up to a million dollars, a local health official estimated.

But San Diego could have avoided its hepatitis A crisis — or at least ensured it didn’t get this bad — if its homeless residents had better access to housing
and the city provided the services they need to stay healthy, activists and public health experts say.

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The problem isn’t limited to San Diego County, which has the fourth-largest homeless population in the U.S.
Detroit, Salt Lake City, Santa Cruz, California, and areas of Colorado are also dealing with hepatitis A outbreaks.
The Los Angeles Acute Communicable Disease Control team told HuffPost that, while L.A. doesn’t currently have an outbreak, officials are on the lookout.
And because of the way the disease spreads
— all it takes is touching a door handle after a contagious person who hasn’t washed their hands and then eating lunch, for example (Emphasis mine)
— these outbreaks could spiral into an even larger public health crisis.

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Infectious Disease - Hepatitis A

Other areas experiencing Hepatitis A problems :
Detroit, Salt Lake City, Santa Cruz, California, and areas of Colorado

[Tax-chick]

if its homeless residents had better access to housing and the city provided the services they need to stay healthy

Bosh. You can't make mentally-ill and drug-addicted people follow good health habits.

[oh8eleven]

But San Diego could have avoided its hepatitis A crisis ... if its homeless residents had better access to housing
Oh, boo-frickin-hoo. That's' the Left's answer for all problems - let the gubmint provide everything from cradle to grave.

[jalisco555]

Wow, 16 dead. Hep A usually isn’t fatal. These pretty must have been pretty debilitated to begin with.

[jalisco555]

“Those people” not “Those pretty”. I really wish we had a way to correct posts here.

[Darteaus94025]

LIEberal made problem. LIEberal solution will, of course, require new taxes, new bureaucracy, and no real solution.

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Tax-chick :" Bosh. You can't make mentally-ill and drug-addicted people follow good health habits. "

Agreed
Especially when you have drug-addicted who refuse housing because the housing centers don't allow drugs on premises.
Now you have to wary while commuting, and concerned about what you touch while in transit.

[morphing libertarian]

LETTING PEOPLE LIVE ON THE SREET AND DOING ALL THE THINGS LIFE MAKES NECESSARY. OUR CITIES ARE OPEN CESS POOLS. I SAW MY FIRST PILE OF STEAMING TURDS OUTSIDE A HOTEL ON BAY IN SF 15 YEARS AGO. now there is an app which where people report RTHE LOCATION OF feces in public.

[morphing libertarian]

YOU CAN IN LOCKED FACILITIES

[Navy Patriot]

San Diego’s Hepatitis Outbreak Is A Man-Made Disaster (16 dead)

Brought to you by the DemoRat party.

[BenLurkin]

"Hep will get you my pretty"

[forgotten man]

Exactamente! Liberal Rino Mayor and liberal city council tell the cops to stop enforcing laws prohibiting camping on the sidewalks and crapping in the streets and we get a hepatitis epidemic. Duh!

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morphing libertarian :" ..now there is an app which where people report THE LOCATION OF feces in public."

Do you recall the name of the app ?
Is it called :" No shite "?

[morphing libertarian]

No I saw it on FB a blue map of SF with brown turd piles on about 15 locations. Saw it this weekend.

[wiggen]

You used to be able to lock them away in a medical facility for their own well being and that of society as a whole.

[petitfour]

They all had Obamacare?

[morphing libertarian]

My solution is criminal justice with small mental health facilities.

Pass laws making things crimes that are not crimes. If a judge overrules impeach the judge. it takes time and patience to change the system,. If you do A 3 times or an A offense and two Bs, you’re in jail. 6 times prison. You need mental health facilities then we put you there. You don’t leave till you have a job or a place to stay in the community where people supervise you taking your meds.

Repeat offenders double down on the time. It may take ten years too have the beds and the laws in place. But if one city starts the people will move to a freer city and then their citizens will make the locals pass the same laws.

I live near SD downtown. We always consider the area paradise. Now it’;s just a crapper like every place else. We have homeless in oceanside and the cops are pretty good about knowing who’s here, but in the early morning some places are not so pretty.

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morphing libertarian :" No I saw it on FB a blue map of SF with brown turd piles on about 15 locations. Saw it this weekend."

Thank for the "heads up" on the app
Sounds like people in many localities and States could use it !

[Tax-chick]

Prisons and jails are some of the very worst infectious environments we have. That’s where the latest strains of multiple antibiotic resistant tuberculosis were bred.