Anonymous ID: bfd576 March 9, 2019, 2:45 p.m. No.5594299   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>4336

"Residents of Los Angeles have been surprised to witness an outbreak of the infectious disease known as typhus, a bacterial infection thought to be largely limited to medical history.

 

The problem is reportedly being accelerated by the presence of the city’s large homeless community. Los Angeles has one of the largest homeless populations for a big city in the country, in great part because of high levels of income inequality and policies that are permissive to homeless encampments.

 

City residents have spoken up hoping to have municipal laws enforced to remove the encampments as a threat to public health, only to be rebuked for perceived hostility to the homeless community. It appears the alternative of having the homeless, many of them drug addicts, live in squalor in public at risk of contracting the serious disease is preferred by the city government.

 

Rats and fleas are essential to the spread of the disease, and the complexity of some of Los Angeles’ homeless tent cities is said to provide an unsanitary environment for the pests to thrive."

 

https://bigleaguepolitics.com/typhus-breaks-out-in-los-angeles/