Typhoid Fever, Typhus & Tuberculosis: Are L.A.'s Medieval Diseases Coming To Your City?

[DigitalDrifter]

Oh such a wonderful thought !


Typhoid Fever, Typhus & Tuberculosis: Are L.A.'s Medieval Diseases Coming To Your City?

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Los Angeles’ E. 10th St. and Naomi Ave as seen by Google’s Street View in March 2019.

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Los Angeles has a growing problem with diseases borne by both flea and feces. An LAPD officer was just diagnosed with typhoid fever along with two more from the same workplace displaying symptoms. Meanwhile, cases of typhus, caused by a different bacterium, have soared in California from 13 in 2008 to 167 in 2018. In addition, there have been outbreaks of hepatitis A, tuberculosis, and staph in L.A. and other West Coast cities.

Why is this happening—and will spread to other cities?

The city of Los Angeles itself links the disease outbreaks to the area’s growing homelessness problem.



Today In: Policy
According to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), “California accounted for 30% of all people experiencing homelessness as individuals in the United States and 49% of all unsheltered individuals” with a homeless rate of about 2.5 times the national rate. California accounts for 12% of the nation’s population.

HUD’s yearly homeless survey estimated that 647,258 people were homeless in 2007, dropping to 552,830 in 2018. Of those, the number of “unsheltered” people were estimated at 255,857 in 2007, hitting a low of 173,268 in 2015 and rising more than 20,000 to 194,467 in 2018.
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[DigitalDrifter]

 

[skye]

Yes, they are.

You have to thank the DemoRats for that.

 

[JOSweetHeart]

With traveling being allowed all over the world anything can come to any area of the globe.

God bless you always!!!

Holly

 

[DigitalDrifter]

When you allow drug addicts, alcoholics, mentally ill, take over your sidewalks, parks and other public spaces, it doesn't take a brain surgeon to know that diseases are going to follow.