Posted on 08/28/2017 7:48:39 PM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt
Fourteen people have died from an outbreak of hepatitis A in San Diego, and experts believe it to be the deadliest outbreak of the disease in the US in decades, the Guardian has learned.
In large part, the victims were homeless people who have had to contend with a lack of 24-hour public restrooms, even though hand-washing is one of the best defenses against infection.
The number of cases has exceeded other large outbreaks, said a Centers for Disease Control (CDC) spokesperson,
and is “likely the most deaths in an outbreak in the US in the past 20 years”. ( more information at source website due to copywrite restrictions) )
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
The virus, which impairs liver function, causing jaundice, fatigue, joint pain and, in the most serious cases, death,
is largely spread through food or water contaminated by fecal matter.
Hepatitis A has a long incubation period – up to 28 days – which means people can spread the disease before they’re aware they’re infected.
Viral Disease - could be contained by access and routine hand washing.
14 fatalities, so far.
Seems like homelessness is way up from what I can see.
I got news for the Guardian....
wash hands?...how quaint...just another old timey American custom that needs to be done away with...
Don’t lean or rest against freeway columns or abutments either, it’s what the enclosure challenged back up and sit against to go poo.
Wouldn’t be sanity for us if people wash fecal matter off their hands in the drinking fountains. They would have to touch the drinking fountains to activate water flow and so the lever they touch is contaminated. Then the bowl of the fountain is dirty because they didn’t use hot water and soap. Hot water and soap is needed to kill viruses etc - rinsing off in cool water wouldn’t help.
you’re new here, aren’t you?
Strap a pack of sanitary handi-wipes to the side of the drinking fountain and it’d all be good. The hard part is getting them to use them.
“Sometimes you get the bear, sometimes the bear gets you.”
I am fairly conscientious about handwashing and general hygiene, but managed to get Hep A in the bush in Uganda back in 1981. I’d guess Hep A carriers were as abundant around me then as they seem to be in San Diego now.
I was a ‘sick puppy’ for a while there. When I finally made it out to the hospital in Nairobi and lab tests, the doctor told me, “I see about three cases of hepatitis each day. Other than in a textbook, yours are the worst lab results I’ve ever seen.”
Hep B is supposed to be worse.
Be careful on Shady lane ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdMk3L00GEg&index=21&list=RDVorr7ni7sNM
It’s amazing how many people don’t wash hands! Even people who keep clean homes can be very poor hand washers. They might have a seippy noae and use their have to catch the drip, then dail to wash their hands. People fail to wash hands after using a Kleenex during a cold. Men fail to wash hands after peeing while women will wash only the palms of their hands.
Who washes hands after handling money? I washed a woman stocking shelves at a grocery store who coughed, covered her mouth with her hands, then wiped the boogered up hand on her pants, grabbed more boxes of pasta and put them on the shelves.
I see women all the time change dirty diapers, ang fail to wash their hands. I’ve had family attempt to change poopie diapers on my couch, and after smearing the poopie butt with the edge of the diaper, set the still stinky butt on the couch as they reach for another diaper. And not wash hands after. I don’t allow people to change diapers in my house except doe in the bathroom where it belongs.
These filthy habits are the sole fault of whomever the primary caretakers of the child. Cleanliness is a habit brought on by good training from infancy. Children live what they learn.
In my city, the majority of the homeless are able bodies men. A few are elderly, a few obviously mentally challenged, a few are obviously injured and disabled. I see a lot of homeless people and that majority of men are drugged on one substance or another. Most of the time it’s crack, meth, or alcohol with a few other substances in between.
Cleanliness? Not even in the summertime when the river is warm, and toiletries are free at the food banks.
You sound blessed to have come through such a bad case.
Well, that’s because there’s a Republican in the WH again. For some reason, the homeless disappear when there is a Rat in the WH. Apparently, a bunch of Dems put the homeless up in fancy hotels - on their own dime, of course, when one of their own occupies the WH.
“Seems like homelessness is way up from what I can see.”
Data,please.
That type of statement needs documentation.
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Hepatitis A is spread mainly by fecal route. Hep B is blood borne and can be spread through sharing needles.
I saw a woman change a diaper on the table in a restaurant.
An increase in homelessness always accompanies the presence of an ‘(R)’ after the President’s name. Or at least that’s how it gets reported.
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