California sees outbreak of typhus among homeless

Monica Showalter:

Is deep blue California earning itself a new title of distinction as the nation's pestilence capital?

Starting to look like it, given the latest news of a typhus outbreak among 64 of the homeless in Los Angeles County, according to The Guardian:

Los Angeles officials have pledged hundreds of thousands of dollars and created a dedicated taskforce to fight an outbreak of typhus, as a city of glittering wealth grapples with a disease linked to intense poverty.

"We're deploying every available resource to help control and stop this outbreak," said Alex Comisar, press secretary for Los Angeles's mayor, Eric Garcetti.

Many of those resources have focused on the city's large homeless population, considered most at risk for contracting the flea-borne illness.

The news follows San Diego County's sub-distinction as the nation's hepatitis capital, again a product of its homeless population, killing 20 and infecting 600, which was reported last year here. Apparently there have been more cases since the press claimed they got it all cleaned up here. Here's another news account:

A newly detected hepatitis A case prompted a public warning from the county health department Friday.

Health and Human Services Agency officials recommend vaccination for anyone who lived at the Volunteers of America Renaissance Treatment Center in National City from June 19 through June 21 because a client who was at the facility on those dates recently tested positive for the viral infection that can damage the liver if left untreated.

Then there's San Francisco, a city so covered in the excrement of homelessness it has 16,000 feces-related complaints from the public, complete with suitcases and trash bags full of excrement decorating its city streets, that the city now employs "poop patrols" as its solution to the problem. It has undoubtedly created massive public health problems in the closely packed, densely populated city, things city officials don't talk about. As American Thinker contributor Lee DeCovnick wrote yesterday, it's so gross in that city that "it'll make you cry."
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The homeless situation in California is leading to serious public health problems.  It seems to be directly related to the State's housing problem where prices have made homes unaffordable for a large slice of teh population.  Some areas look like a third world country of shacks and tents without adequate sanitation facilities.   You would think a rich state like California could at least afford portapotties.