Posted on 04/05/2026 2:40:58 PM PDT by DFG
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.
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Like ‘stupidity’?
The Great Flag of the democrat party of California.
Mexican refugees? Was Mexico invaded by Canada and I didn’t hear about it?
Typhus is a disease historically associated with squalor and unhygienic living conditions. Common in cities being besieged or the armies conducting sieges.
This is 100% on the 3 rd world slums the Dems have created inCali.
“Routine typhoid vaccination is not recommended in the United States, but typhoid vaccine is recommended for:
Travelers to parts of the world where typhoid is common. (NOTE: typhoid vaccine is not 100% effective and is not a substitute for being careful about what you eat or drink.)
People in close contact with a typhoid carrier.
Laboratory workers who work with Salmonella typhi bacteria.
Typhoid vaccine may be given at the same time as other vaccines.”
Next time I go to the mainland or Oahu I will get a shot.
It should be noted that Typhus and Typhoid are different. There is a vaccine for Typhoid virus, but Typhus has no vaccine available.
Everything is blamed on global warming!
And all positives, like warmer climate, greening of the Earth, and huge improvements in farming yields, are suppressed.
Typhus is spread by lice and fleas.
It was rampant in Nazi concentration camps.
I blame Californians on the return of Middle Ages style thinking!
It was rampant in Nazi concentration camps.
Filth, leading to vermin overpopulation, guarantees disease outbreaks.
Typhoid and typhus are different illnesses, yes. Typhoid is caused by Salmonella Typhi, and typhus is caused by Rickettsia sp. The mode of transmission is different too. Typhus is spread by vectors such as fleas and lice. Typhoid is spread by eating/drinking contaminated food and water.
You are correct!
I miss understood the affliction.
I have cane rats all over my property.
My protection is Cats that like to hunt
Rats, and appropriate hygiene.
No one gives a shi...er...a NewSCUM about anything to do with that former first world state. They are going down, to the cheers of real US citizens.
I worked there during the 80’s. We could get overtime on Wednesday night throwing rat bait into the downtown alleys. We worked in pairs and had a van with a spotlight. Sometimes it would look like blowing leaves. Rats running everywhere in the spotlight. They had typhus outbreaks in the local flop houses even then. They had the Norway rats downtown. They burrow right into the asphalt. More likely to carry fleas. The Roof rats lived in the suburbs.They like ivy.
Cats won’t protect you from typhus as they also become vectors.
Proof positive that CA is NOT a good place to visit.
“they also become vectors”
I hate it when non mathematicians
use the word “vectors”
A vector is something with direction and length
or an insect(a noun eg. it has a name!)
And you know my math background how?
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