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Los Angeles funded and enabled a massive population of drug addicts to set up tent camps and banned effective ways of killing vermin. Medieval diseases returned. What’s to blame? Global warming!
The county health department’s report indicates that California also had the highest number of flea-borne typhus cases in the modern era at 277.
Number 1 in the modern era. Or perhaps California is going medieval.
Shannon Bennett, the chief of science and a microbiology curator at the California Academy of Sciences, said the disease has been around for centuries and is “as old as the plague.”
“It’s always a little disconcerting to be hit with an old, emerging infectious disease,” she told SFGATE, saying she’s concerned that people’s hygiene and living conditions could leave them at risk.
Bennett said a changing climate with warmer temperatures may help flea populations increase, which can lead to the spread of typhus.
“Hygiene and living conditions”. Or you know, warm weather, in California of all places.
What might be causing this outbreak?
“It’s never been considered a very common disease,” Peter Hotez, the dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, noted, “but we seem to see it more frequently. And it seems to be extending across from Southern California all along the Mexican border into southeastern Texas and then into the Gulf Coast in Florida.”
America never had much of a history of typhus, but Mexico did. And our brief episodes of typhus invariably involved immigrants and migrants carrying the disease from Europe or Mexico.
The first outbreak of the disease in this hemisphere occurred in Mexico back in the 17th century and there have been 22 major outbreaks since then, caused in part by refugees and crowded conditions. Typhus was so associated with Mexico that it was even known as Tabardillo or Mexican typhus fever. There was extensive debate as to whether Mexican typhus was different than European typhus.
The first case of typhus in southern California was linked to Mexican refugees.
Then again, it could be the plague of rats that Democrats decided to enable by banning effective poisons while legalizing public human waste and street living.
Los Angeles County’s ongoing typhus epidemic had infected Deputy City Attorney Liz Greenwood.
“Who gets typhus? It’s a medieval disease that’s caused by trash,” she wondered.
Greenwood is partially correct. The typhus outbreak, like the hepatitis outbreak, was directly caused by social justice policies that legalized public vagrancy, and leaving trash and human waste on sidewalks. The piles of trash, human waste and people combine to create horrifying diseased conditions. Before Greenwood, many Los Angeles patients who had been diagnosed with typhus were indeed homeless.
“There are rats in City Hall and City Hall East,” she complained. “There are enormous rats and their tails are as long as their bodies.”
Los Angeles is once again in second place as the 2nd most rat infested hellhole in the nation. In New York City, Democrat politicians had embraced living on the street as a protected and subsidized activity. A typhus outbreak followed in Los Angeles. The disease, which is carried by fleas living on rats, centered around Skid Row, the epicenter of the city’s homeless population. The ban on evicting vagrants or preventing them from covering the streets in filth has been a boot for the rats.
The issue here isn’t ‘global warming’, it’s local Democrats who decided to create the perfect conditions for a medieval disease while blaming the results, as everything else, on global warming.
Maybe it’s that our failure to stop Newsom from jetting around the world has tilted the earth on its axis. Or maybe it’s open borders, homelessness and banning rat poison.
Getting rid of those diseases is a good reason for finding an economical way of eliminating homelessness.
They get scabies and bed bugs a lot, too. Nasty.
Definitely ….
There has also been periodic mention of Bubonic plague in the rat population in the areas with the highest concentration of homeless (in and around downtown LA.)
The rats get quite large and aren’t afraid of humans.
Rats are afraid of me but I’m a real human, not a derelict. Rats are quite intelligent and sense hesitation and weakness.
Don’t be so sure. Years ago, I once stopped by a traveling side show (in downtown LA!!) and saw a caged rat that was twice the size of a full grown rabbit. Holy effing sh*t! A got damn rat! There was no mistaking what that creature was. And it was alive! The sign at the booth read: “see a live rat from the sewers of Paris.” I came, I saw and I ain’t going to Paris, that’s for sure!
Trust me, you wouldn’t want to run across 2 or 3 of those things at night while alone. You might be on the menu that night!
The rats in Indonesia are Norwegian wharf rats, or whatever they’re called. As big as big cats. I used to hack them in half with my machete.
It seems that blaming in “global warming” for the increase of typhus is another scam that the state government can use to fool the brain-washed into voting or supporting legislation that will make it more expensive to live in California mean while solving nothing.
Truth be told it’s ploy. a new and inventive way to garners more federal dollars. I’m shocked that no one hasn’t considered that yet. Democrats are always inventing new ways to justify spend increasing amounts of tax payers money. It’s who they are and what they do. Their big hearts, your money.
Next up will be the bubonic plague, aka The Black Death.
California is one of the world’s largest repositories of bubonic plague.
Most of that comes out of Mexico, too.
I met girls who had leprosy once or twice in Indonesia. I gave both those girls money.
Yeah, I met a leper in India. Shocking experience.
Yes, it’s like the stuff we saw in movies. “Ben Hur” comes to mind. You could see it on their faces. The disease. I caressed them anyway. In America leprosy would be alleviated to the point of a cure but not in India and Indonesia.
The Indonesians are very compassionate people but its medical system is fucked up beyond belief, as I found out first hand when first my mother in law (I love her) and my ex-wife got sick enough to require hospitalization.
It’s shocking alright. You don’t expect to meet a leper.
Typhus. I hear it’s bacterial, which is bad. That’s even more disgusting than the fake new “cicada covid virus.” As if you can catch the wuhan flu from a cicada. You can’t catch any communicable disease from a cicada and they only live in the east anyway. They aren’t blood sucking fleas, ticks, lice or chiggers. They’re just some type of really ugly grasshopper that makes LOTS of noise. They eat leaves, not human flesh.
Chigger bites itch like a motherfucker, though, and leave huge welts. And they can bite you right through your shirt or the thigh of your jeans! I’ve never been bitten by a flea, tick or louse but I did see a louse once. It tried to get in my tent because my dumbass friend left the flap door open.
“Cicada covid virus” is about as dangerous to Americans as monkey pox. I don’t want any rats and their fleas chewing on me, though. I guess I’ll stay out of Los Angeles and New York City. Not much of a a sacrifice on my part.
So, democrats lead to demonrats, which lead to rats, which lead to typhus?
Just a continuation of chain migration.
Ya don’t suppose that forcing democrat politicians to live in the conditions they have created might encourage a change in policy?
Unless you force them with the business end of a gun, that’ll never happen. With democrats it’s steak and caviar for me, beans and rice for you. Fine dining for me, dumpster dining for you. Concierge Care for me, Medi-fraud for you.
Enlightened Californians would say “rats were here first so we must accept their presence….”
CommieFornia’s refusal to do anything with the homeless crises. Only more money laundering rackets with tax payer funds ear marked for homeless.
Gov. Newscum: “Hey, it’s not fire season yet, so flea-borne typhus is the best I can do to thin the herd and take down the economy – then, when I run for Pres in 2028, I can use the liberal media to blame it on Trump and the republicans!”