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.
(Excerpt) Read more at nbclosangeles.com ...
It’s for the children...
Jeb said so...
Give your tired, your poor, your huddled
masses, riddled with disease...
LA’s trying to steal the good news from San Francisco.
There is a ballot measure to allow “camping” in downtown Denver. Apparently, the “progressives” here want to allow the homeless to concentrate downtown outdoors and away from shelters to kill one other off with infectious diseases.
It’s a turd world area
It does not effect cats or dogs. But they can carry the fleas.
I’ve been in SF for a week.
I first visited SF in 1966, and I’ve been here many times since over the years. It’s still America’s most beautiful city, visually.
However, it’s deterioration, which has accelerated over the past ten years, is really astonishing.
Yes, there’s sh*t in the streets, but they are keeping up by cleaning overnight. But the number of psychotic people wandering the streets has never been higher. No shoes, open sores, constant babbling - it’s like a scene out of a horror movie.
And it’s dirty - really dirty. And I lived in Brooklyn in the 1970s. It’s worse than that.
Going back to the White Mountains Saturday. Can’t wait.
With penicillin and other medications losing their clout due to the spread of resistant diseases, we’re facing a return to the DarK Ages.
The experiment is showing what happens when you create a sanctuary sty...going to “love” them to death with diseases and drugs and gratuitous murder....
I assume Bubonic Plague is next on the pestilence menue.
Infectious Disease Ping - ( typhus outbreak - Los Angeles )
Vectors : rodents, opossums, squirrels, domestic pets
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.
Thanks for the ping.
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No one brought it in, it has always been endemic (around) in the LA area.
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
Ideas on why it is so prevalent now?
“Ideas on why it is so prevalent now?“
Prolonged exposure of policymakers to false ideas.
This is so disgusting. I’m seeing new tents by the sides of the freeway. CIVILIZATION IS FOR A REASON. Why must we shunt it aside for political correctness about the rights of decivilized mentally ill? What about our responsibilities to each other, for safety and health as a society?
Please, if you live in LA protect your pets.
And keep them at sea.
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