Posted on 10/06/2017 7:58:49 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
LOS ANGELES — The hepatitis A outbreak in California that has claimed 17 lives may not have peaked and could take a year or more to abate, health officials said Thursday.
The contagious, liver-damaging illness has infected at least 568 people since November, mainly in San Diego, Santa Cruz and Los Angeles counties. People without symptoms can carry the illness, and health officials suspect that transients in San Diego County spread it through other homeless populations around the state.
More than 480 cases of the illness, including all 17 deaths, have occurred in San Diego County, which declared a public health emergency last month.
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Wasn’t there a drought in California that “lingered for a year or more?”
There’s a rampant homeless problem in San Diego. They may try to set up homeless encampments to try to stop the spread of disease.
For now, they are sending dudes in hazmat suits out, to hose down the streets and sidewalks where homeless go to the bathroom, trying to clean up the residue of fecal matter which has been spreading disease.
It gets me, that we seemingly are impotent to deal with homelessness. In response to disease outbreak, we are sending guys out to clean up the streets, but then, what’s to stop the homeless from future defecation and future disease outbreaks??
We can clean the streets, but not clean up the root cause of what caused the problem in the first place.
Fantastic. Bring some more illegals into the state.
That would certainly help rid the problem...
I couldn’t prove it but I’m certain that C-did led in part to our son’s death.
For now, they are sending dudes in hazmat suits out, to hose down the streets and sidewalks where homeless go to the bathroom, trying to clean up the residue of fecal matter which has been spreading disease
So it will wash down into the bay where people swim and then out into the ocean where it will sweep down the coast where people are playing in the water.
It was just on the news last night that an ethnic restaurant in Ann Arbor has reported a confirmed case of hepatitis A. Anyone who ate at Cardamom restaurant between Sept. 16 and Oct. 3 may have been exposed. Just one of the many benefits we can all look forward to with the generous national “immigration and refugee” policies this country extends to the third world.
Mexico, the gift that keeps giving.
More than 480 cases of the illness, including all 17 deaths,
have occurred in San Diego County, which declared a public health emergency last month.
The infection has still not reached its apex.
It may take a year or longer to control the regional infection.
The new status of “sanctuary State” will surely alleviate this epidemic....
Local zoning and building codes, anti-landlord laws, and Section 8 all have created homelessness.
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