Posted on 10/04/2018 6:35:45 PM PDT by jeannineinsd
A flea-borne typhus outbreak among homeless in downtown Los Angeles triggered an investigation by the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health after several cases were reported, the agency said Thursday. NBC sources say the number may be upwards of at least a dozen.
Typhus can cause fever, chills, body aches, nausea and vomiting, cough, and rash, but can be treated with antibiotics. If not treated however, it can be fatal.
Flea-borne typhus is a bacteria that spreads to humans when they come in contact with infected fleas or rat feces. Animals such as cats, rodents and opossums all attract fleas. Piles of garbage may also attract fleas, leading them to humans through these means. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has not been informed by the city or county, NBC sources say.
The scope of the outbreak is hard to assess because it could take one to two weeks to detect, meaning the full extent of the number of infections is likely unknown at this time.
The outbreak follows a Tuberculosis outbreak in the same area along numerous staph infections reported.
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“Typhus can cause fever, chills, body aches, nausea and vomiting, cough, and rash, but can be treated with antibiotics. If not treated however, it can be fatal.”
Sadly, a human health crisis may be the only way out of this “homeless” problem, because I don’t see government taking charge here in CA. Our youngest daughter lives in downtown Oakland, right next to one of the major parks. Until a year or two ago, it was pristine, now it’s replete with tents, but no sanitary facilities.
This typhus outbreak follows a Tuberculosis outbreak, which follows a Hepatitis A outbreak last year.
Which follows an illegal immigrant outbreak.
Libs tell us to take public transportation. Look at the company you keep there. Not counting the disease laden fleas.
Millenials and politicians in my leftist city have been anti-car for years. Typical socialist scumbags.
Homeless litter the streets in part by laws that hamstring law enforcement championed years ago by the ACLU, and shopped to SCOTUS in 83 or therabouts. The issue of lawful detainment of vagabonds and drifters needs to be revisited, perhaps by a Kavenaugh court.
“If not treated however, it can be fatal.
Flea-borne typhus is a bacteria that spreads to humans when they come in contact with infected fleas or rat feces.”
Also spread by lice. Typhus fever was the focus of Hans Zinsser in Rats, Lice, and History.
https://www.amazon.com/Rats-History-Social-Science-Classics/dp/1412806720
I worked for LA County 1983-89. A couple of those years in rodent control. Cases of typhus in downtown flophouses was not uncommon. Norway rats were all over downtown LA. I have fond memories of throwing out rat bait into the alleyways on Wednesday nights. Our specially equipped van had a spotlight that would light up the alleyways. All the rats running everywhere looked like blowing leaves. Amazing critters. They would actually burrow through the asphalt in parking lots.
Cholera next.
The SanFran Mission District has the same per capita incident of Hep A has in Mexico.
And, uh...
I will give you JUST ONE GUESS why.
If it is deadly, I am all for it.
The left are using germ warfare, and no, I’m not joking.
That may have been typhoid.
That means San Fran, Las Vegas, and Denver aren’t far behind.
is typhoid mary in town?
Maybe that way this nation's obscenely wealthy "progressives" can get a taste of what things might be like when ICE is abolished.
Well,we're talking Mexico so it's more likely to be Dengue Fever.Cholera is what Europe can look forward to with all those African "refugees".
I got a typhus shot when I was deployed to an actual 3rd-world craphole.
Draw your own conclusions.
...with apologies to 3rd-world crapholes everywhere.
That and the poop.
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