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A Horrible Contagious Illness is Spreading Through Portland, Oregon’s Homeless Population (Shigella)
GATEWAYPUNDIT ^ | 1/5/2024 | mike lachance

Posted on 01/05/2024 9:02:00 PM PST by bitt

Portland, Oregon has a serious homeless problem and now it’s about to get worse. Much worse.

The disease of Shigella is spreading in the city, mostly through the homeless population, and to make matters worse, it spreads in a disgusting way, through fecal matter.

Aside from the ethical matter of allowing people to live on the street, one of the biggest issues is the threat to public health. This is why you don’t want a large population of people living in tents and using streets as a bathroom.

FOX News reports:

Portland health officials report waste-borne illness rampant among city’s homeless

Portland, Oregon, is grappling with a cluster of a highly infectious illness that spreads through fecal matter and puts the city’s large homeless population at high risk, according to health officials.

“While we are currently seeing an increase in Shigella cases in the Portland metro area, the risk to the broader public remains low at this time and there are no measures for most folks to take at this time. The best thing we can all do to prevent both respiratory viral illness and diarrheal illness is to keep practicing good hand hygiene,” Multnomah County Deputy Health Officer Teresa Everson said in a comment to Fox News Digital.

Portland and surrounding areas closed out 2023 with 227 documented Shigella cases, health officials in Multnomah County told Fox News Digital on Thursday, 45 of which occurred in December alone. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) describes Shigella as bacteria found in fecal matter that can infect someone if ingested. The illness can cause people to experience bloody and prolonged diarrhea, fever, stomach pain, and “feeling the need to pass stool (poop) even when the bowels are empty.”

Shigella can be spread through sex, drinking contaminated water, changing diapers or caring for someone sick with the illness.

Truly disgusting.

Portland Residents Suffering From Deadly Disease Caused by Human Poop. ❌Health official have warned of a massive surge in shigella cases in Portland due to the widespread contamination of human excrement in the city.‍♀️ Shigella is a deadly bacteria that spreads via fecal matter,… pic.twitter.com/oCUiuBUiuo

— Wtfportland (@Wtfportland1) January 2, 2024

Leftists in Portland were crazy for masks and vaccines during COVID. Where are they now? Who wants to live like this?


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KEYWORDS: bloggers; chat; disease; faeces; fecesfactory; homeless; homelesspopulation; oregon; portland; sanctuarycity; shigella; shigellosis; thirdworldcity
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1 posted on 01/05/2024 9:02:00 PM PST by bitt
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To: null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; bgill; bitt; ...

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2 posted on 01/05/2024 9:02:20 PM PST by bitt (<img src=' 'width=30%>)
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To: bitt

No matter...they deemed themselves a sanctuary city. So enjoy the new residents, you fools!!


3 posted on 01/05/2024 9:04:03 PM PST by szweig (HYHEY Have You Had Enough Yet??!?)
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To: bitt

“The best thing we can all do to prevent both respiratory viral illness and diarrheal illness is to keep practicing good hand hygiene,”

How about pooping in a toilet instead of on the street?


4 posted on 01/05/2024 9:06:48 PM PST by Uncle Miltie (Objective: Permanently break the will of the population to ever wage war again.)
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To: bitt

Liberals deserve to suffer their sins.


5 posted on 01/05/2024 9:12:35 PM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: bitt
Next on the agenda: Cholera.
6 posted on 01/05/2024 9:17:59 PM PST by Nateman (If the Pedo Profit Mad Moe (pig pee upon him!) was not the Antichrist then he comes in second.)
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To: bitt

Shigella is the bacteria. The disease is shigellosis.

The primary symptom is diarrhea.


7 posted on 01/05/2024 9:21:20 PM PST by jdege
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“”keep practicing good hand hygiene””???

Only in a leftist hell hole would the solution to disease be hand washing.

I can just see the do-gooders with backpacks, passing out Handy Wipes.

The Homeless Industrial Complex will demand more billions for the “Handy Wipes for the Homeless” campaign. All kinds of new staff will be hired (and the necessary office space, of course).

People will be trained on “How to Teach Proper Hand Washing To The Schizophrenic.”


8 posted on 01/05/2024 9:22:36 PM PST by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try)
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To: jdege

I think Shigella rang up my meal yesterday at McDonalds.


9 posted on 01/05/2024 9:23:56 PM PST by Right Brother (Pray for God's intervention to stop UMCRevMom's invasion of Free Republic)
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To: Ronaldus Magnus III
People will be trained on “How to Teach Proper Hand Washing To The Schizophrenic.”,

Sounds like a future Ivy League graduation requirement.

10 posted on 01/05/2024 9:24:46 PM PST by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: bitt

Well, ain’t that the sh!its?


11 posted on 01/05/2024 9:30:21 PM PST by doorgunner69 (When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty)
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To: bitt

Cholera, typhoid and typhus are up next.

You can’t have a third world country unless you have endemic diseases due to poor hygiene and sanitation.

I thought we were headed to Argentina, but it looks more and more like we’re going to skip the second world and head right for Congo.


12 posted on 01/05/2024 9:33:46 PM PST by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals)
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To: VanShuyten

Well put but they sure are dragging down the country.


13 posted on 01/05/2024 9:38:20 PM PST by Beowulf9
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To: bitt
Shigella is a genus of bacteria that is Gram-negative, facultatively anaerobic, non–spore-forming, nonmotile, rod-shaped, and is genetically closely related to Escherichia. The genus is named after Kiyoshi Shiga, who discovered it in 1897.

Shigella causes disease in primates, but not in other mammals; it is the causative agent of human shigellosis. It is only naturally found in humans and gorillas. During infection, it typically causes dysentery.

Shigella is a leading cause of bacterial diarrhea worldwide, with annually 80–165 million annual cases (estimated) and 74,000 to 600,000 deaths. It is one of the top four pathogens that cause moderate-to-severe diarrhea in African and South Asian children.

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14 posted on 01/05/2024 9:50:23 PM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: Ronaldus Magnus III

Hand washing is racist.


15 posted on 01/05/2024 9:50:44 PM PST by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.)
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To: bitt

As long as it kills Democrats, I’ll stand aside and watch.


16 posted on 01/05/2024 9:54:26 PM PST by rellic (the "woods)
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To: szweig

Actually the new residents have paid housing, food healthcare and whatever else they may need. Citizens are tossed into the streets.


17 posted on 01/05/2024 9:55:31 PM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: bitt

This is a good enough reason to demand that they live like normal human beings. Damn bums and hobos.


18 posted on 01/05/2024 10:01:28 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (America!Biden has turned what was one of the greatest documentaries into a one season retard sitcom.)
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To: bitt

What we NEED is PROGRAMS, to educate people on how to hand out TURD POLISH and show the people through the PROGRAMS to properly POLISH their TURDS with hygienic CLEAN HANDS before ingesting them. This is a product of WHITE SUPREMACIST RACIST EXPLOITATION that the people are undersupplied with TURD POLISHING PROGRAMS.


19 posted on 01/05/2024 10:07:39 PM PST by _longranger81
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To: szweig

It’s not hard to imagine that is not the only bacteria or virus being spread around there. I see a revival of the seventies diseases coming back with a vengeance.


20 posted on 01/05/2024 10:14:10 PM PST by Beowulf9
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