Bubonic Plague “Imminent” in Los Angeles, Says Dr. Drew Pinsky

Red State ^ | July 20, 2019 | Jennifer Van Laar

[Georgia Girl 2]

Surprise,surprise,surprise!

[Sivad]

Those poor souls in downtown LA should move their
homeless encampments to cleaner areas like Beverly Hills
and Bel Air. Let’s hear from the Democratic presidential
candidates on the matter.....

[Sivad]

I’m with you....!

4th generation Californian.

[Billthedrill]

Scary indeed. It isn't as if we weren't warned. LA police coming down with typhus should have sent up flares the size of a Fourth of July show.

The good news is that plague is readily treatable by antibiotics once diagnosed. So what happens when the antibiotics run out? Take a look, for example, at what the CDC says about treatment (scroll down a bit). That little notation "not widely available in the United States" is a clue that maybe we're not as equipped to address a disease breakout as we assume.

Plague isn't transmissible directly between human beings in the early stages of an epidemic. It becomes so when it proceeds to the pneumonic form and is blasted into the air by coughing. Note from the World Health Organization: "the pneumonic form is invariably fatal unless treated early." Serious stuff.

[Jane Austen]

Sure is scary. Have friends who have complained about rats in San Francisco, and the homeless situation there is getting worse.

[Jane Austen]

Sure is scary. Have friends who have complained about rats in San Francisco, and the homeless situation there is getting worse.