Just another infectious disease to rear it's ugly head in the filthier sections of Southern California's cities. Real third world stuff, for sure. Funny how these once eradicated diseases keep finding their way back. Another reason to avoid these sewers, if there weren't enough reasons already.



The city of Los Angeles is suffering from an outbreak of a "middle ages" and "pioneer days" disease —typhus — typically found in homeless populations.

The outbreak began in October, according to CNN, with 57 cases of the flea- and flea feces-borne disease in downtown Los Angeles, not typically a hotbed of rare diseases. That was up from around 6 cases over the summer, all found in people "experiencing homelessness."

According to L.A. public health officials, there were more than 120 reported cases of typhus in 2018, and that number is increasing steadily in the first months of 2019.

A local NBC affiliate says city officials assumed that the disease would remain largely within the homeless population, but lately, cases of typhus have been cropping up among an unexpected group of people: city officials.

"It felt like somebody was driving railroad stakes through my eyes and out the back of my neck," Deputy City Attorney Liz Greenwood told Local 4 news. "Who gets typhus? It's a medieval disease that's caused by trash."

Greenwood speculates that she got typhus fever from fleas riding on the rats that occasionally infest Los Angeles city buildings. Those fleas get their typhus from piles of garbage surrounding homeless encampments throughout the city.

"There are rats in City Hall and City Hall East," Greenwood told NBC. "There are enormous rats and their tails are as long as their bodies."

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, who recently announced he would not pursue a presidential campaign in 2020, has been trying to control the typhus epidemic largely by allocating funds for trash cleanup, particularly in areas where homeless people gather to live for extended periods of time, including the city's famous Skid Row.

"Last fall we directed multiple City departments to begin a coordinated and comprehensive effort to improve cleanliness and protect public health in the Civic Center, including City Hall and City Hall East," a spokeswoman for the city of Los Angeles told local media.

"In addition to increased trash collection and cleanings, aggressive action has been taken to address pests both in the buildings and in the surrounding outside areas — including abatement treatments and the filling of 60 rodent burrows and 114 tree wells. This work in busy and highly populated public buildings is executed carefully to protect workers and visitors, and the scheduling of extermination activities takes these factors into consideration," she added.

But it isn't enough. Local media has continued to photograph piles of trash on Los Angeles city sidewalks, and as quickly as the trash can be collected, it reappears.

The root problem is something Los Angeles has been struggling to control for more than half a decade: rampant homelessness, driven by L.A.'s rising cost of living and the L.A. City Council's "progressive" approach to combatting the increasing number of people sleeping rough, the L.A. Times reports. The city has been evicting and repossessing rundown properties to help expand housing opportunities for the middle class and, at the same time, urging police to resist breaking up homeless camps.

More than 55,000 people now live on the streets in Los Angeles, up a shocking 75% since Garcetti took office in 2013. Another 55,000 homeless people live in communities surrounding Los Angeles, like Pasadena, Long Beach, and Glendale.

"During an October [2017] hygiene survey," the L.A. Times says, "county public health officials identified 222 encampments, including 50 with 30 or more people living in them. These ragtag outposts have altered the basic terms of urban life."

Those encampments appear to be where typhus and other communicable diseases thrive: "People in Koreatown step outside their fancy condos to find tents, rotting food and human feces at their doorsteps. Buses and trains have become de facto shelters, and thousands of people sleep in fear and degradation."

Los Angeles says it plans on moving those populations into long-term shelters, but, shockingly, they need more money. Until then, residents are being told to watch their pets closely for fleas, and to have their homes fumigated if they believe they have a flea infestation.



https://www.dailywire.com/news...typhus-emily-zanotti

Great story. If you tolerate this situation, reap the whirlwind.

I'm surprised to hear this about Los Angeles when San Francisco seems to have an even more concentrated homeless population and a definite problem with sanitation.

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Originally posted by Orguss:
I'm surprised to hear this about Los Angeles when San Francisco seems to have an even more concentrated homeless population and a definite problem with sanitation.

They've got other problems, we'll see what the cold-snap tonight does.

It's more likely that it's coming in from those third world countries they mentioned. Enjoy your sanctuaries.

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”There are rats in City Hall and City Hall East," Greenwood told NBC.

No shit, Sherlock. DemocRATS.

Saw an article here where a few are being detained for having small pox, and over half have TB. A few years ago there was an outbreak of TB in SW Houston, thanks to the infected illegals. METRO bus service was having to disinfect the buses on those routes every night.

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Originally posted by zoom6zoom:
It's more likely that it's coming in from those third world countries they mentioned. Enjoy your sanctuaries.

I tend to believe this. There was an outbreak of measels at one of the tech companies here in Seattle. It's not just restricted to immigrants from poor countries.

V.

Between this sort of thing and measles making a surge due to anti-vaxers, I really wish people would stop being dumb.

Couldn’t happen to a more deserving bunch of folks. What is the old saying? When you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas? I don’t like denigrating dogs so let’s amend that to rats instead.

When do the locusts arrive?

Live like the third world, die like the third world.

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"There are rats in City Hall and City Hall East," Greenwood told NBC. "There are enormous rats and their tails are as long as their bodies."

Irony is truth with the volume turned to 11.

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Originally posted by arcwelder76:
... I really wish people would stop being dumb.

< John Wayne voice on >

That'll be the day.

< John Wayne voice off >

See also my other reply

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couldn't have happened to a nicer city

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Originally posted by Orguss:
I'm surprised to hear this about Los Angeles when San Francisco seems to have an even more concentrated homeless population and a definite problem with sanitation.

I have seen both situations and Los Angeles simply has far more trash that goes with the homeless. They have more space to generate more camps and trash.

Perhaps this is just the first of many plagues to infect that rotten commie socialist anti-American cesspool on the left coast. One can only hope.

the fact that it has hit city officials is encouraging

The wonderful and oppressed homeless, the noble bums, keep starting fires for cooking. LA begs them not to. So, a lot of the wildfires they fight out there would be easily stopped if they moved the bums along like they used to instead of making them comfortable.

I listen to Adam Corolla and Dr Drew quite a bit and Drew has been warning anyone that would listen for the last year or two that this was coming.

He was correct evidently.

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Originally posted by badcopnodonut!!:
I listen to Adam Corolla and Dr Drew quite a bit and Drew has been warning anyone that would listen for the last year or two that this was coming.

He was correct evidently.

Not only right, but he says it’s going to get worse. Plus, you can throw Hep A into the mix. Lovely.