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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Rats, Fleas, And Garbage Caused A Typhus Outbreak In Los Angeles
2019-02-08
In this day and age.
[Hot Air] Typhus is a bacterial infection which is spread by lice, chiggers, and fleas. Usually, those pests find a home on rats. The rats in most cases have a population boom because of excessive garbage. And the disease infects people who come in contact with the rats. That’s what is driving the disease in Los Angeles where an outbreak has been traced to homeless encampments.

Government officials in Los Angeles are considering ripping out carpets in city buildings amid a typhus outbreak that has infected workers.

The disease is typically caused by infected fleas and their feces. It can also be spread by rats, cats and opossums, according to health officials. Downtown Los Angeles has been battling an outbreak since October that was linked to homeless street encampments, officials said.

An NBC News report last year described the conditions in downtown LA where the rats are flourishing:
Posted by:Besoeker

#9  Well, can you blame them? They didn't have a rat problem until man-made global climate change ... changed ... and made life better for the rats.

As soon as we get the climate back to where it should be, the rats will disappear!

Yes, it's sarcasm, for now.
Posted by: Bobby   2019-02-08 15:52  

#8  The elites are still pushing climate change and a green agenda. And yet they are dealing not dealing with the third world problem of typhus in LA? Clean up the frickin garbage.
Posted by: JohnQC   2019-02-08 13:24  

#7  This is known as bad luck. Heinlein


How is it that Heinlein was so knowledgeable, way in advance, about the results of the progressive movement?

He must have been an alien.
Posted by: AlanC   2019-02-08 11:28  

#6  democRATS?
Posted by: warthogswife   2019-02-08 11:19  

#5  These pesky Arachnida have been put here for a purpose, and they have found their purpose. Please leave them to their work.
Posted by: Besoeker   2019-02-08 07:02  

#4  The normalcy of a life that isn't nasty, brutish and short is always significantly less than one generation away from extinction.

Long live the Green Leap Forward!
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660   2019-02-08 06:56  

#3  Yes, wiping out germs is a form of genocide...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2019-02-08 02:36  

#2  It's not a 3rd world epidemic in a major American city. We're just celebrating microbial diversity!

*cough*Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane*cough*
Posted by: SteveS   2019-02-08 00:59  

#1  So? Democrats are known for and as germy parasites.
Posted by: Woodrow   2019-02-08 00:51  

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