Poor opossums.. They better not kill them!
I live in Orange County. I hadn’t heard about the threat of typhus. We have a huge population of fruit rats in the county. They have fleas too. I would think the feral cats would help to keep the fruit rat population down.
Ironically, possums are more likely to spread disease than feral cats. Besides, apparently the cats are a lot smarter, being natural predators.
I suppose it would be too much to ask these scumbags to close the border before more turd world treats get back into these United States?
Why do the vector control officials think that a third world disease was brought in by feral cats?
Would you please give the link to this article, thank you.
This article is one I would like to link to the source as gathering info. on feral cats.
Hmmm. Santa Ana, the city with 90% illegal aliens??
Cats spread toxoplasmosis which is now proven to change human brains and personality.
Kill them.
According to Wikipedia, it’s lice that are the vector, not fleas.
This report is too vague. What type of types is it? If it is Murine then the fleas originated on rats and they ought to be focusing on getting rid of the rats. If it is epidemic typhus then it originated with lice and they ought to be rounding up the humans in the area. Either way ‘vector control’ is not doing what would alleviate the situation. No big surprise though since when AIDS was first rampant they wouldn’t close the bath houses either
Feral cats should be controlled - trapped, neutered and released (some cannot again make a happy life as a “house cat”), even in normal circumstances. At least when neutered, those who are neutered do not extend the feral cat population.
They are an outcome of residents who have failed to control their own “house cats” - in other words, an outcome of pet-handling by people who have no business having domestic pets in the first place.
Is there a human vaccine for typhus?