[Tilted Irish Kilt]

The problem isn’t limited to San Diego County, which has the fourth-largest homeless population in the U.S.
Detroit, Salt Lake City, Santa Cruz, California, and areas of Colorado are also dealing with hepatitis A outbreaks.
The Los Angeles Acute Communicable Disease Control team told HuffPost that, while L.A. doesn’t currently have an outbreak, officials are on the lookout.
And because of the way the disease spreads
— all it takes is touching a door handle after a contagious person who hasn’t washed their hands and then eating lunch, for example (Emphasis mine)
— these outbreaks could spiral into an even larger public health crisis.

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

Infectious Disease - Hepatitis A

Other areas experiencing Hepatitis A problems :
Detroit, Salt Lake City, Santa Cruz, California, and areas of Colorado

[Tax-chick]

if its homeless residents had better access to housing and the city provided the services they need to stay healthy

Bosh. You can't make mentally-ill and drug-addicted people follow good health habits.

[oh8eleven]

But San Diego could have avoided its hepatitis A crisis ... if its homeless residents had better access to housing
Oh, boo-frickin-hoo. That's' the Left's answer for all problems - let the gubmint provide everything from cradle to grave.

[jalisco555]

Wow, 16 dead. Hep A usually isn’t fatal. These pretty must have been pretty debilitated to begin with.

[Darteaus94025]

LIEberal made problem. LIEberal solution will, of course, require new taxes, new bureaucracy, and no real solution.

[morphing libertarian]

LETTING PEOPLE LIVE ON THE SREET AND DOING ALL THE THINGS LIFE MAKES NECESSARY. OUR CITIES ARE OPEN CESS POOLS. I SAW MY FIRST PILE OF STEAMING TURDS OUTSIDE A HOTEL ON BAY IN SF 15 YEARS AGO. now there is an app which where people report RTHE LOCATION OF feces in public.

[Navy Patriot]

San Diego’s Hepatitis Outbreak Is A Man-Made Disaster (16 dead)

Brought to you by the DemoRat party.

[petitfour]

They all had Obamacare?

[Chickensoup]

The mentally ill homeless population has access to housing, they refuse to stay in it. It takes too much of their check that they would rather spend on drugs.

See this over and over again.

This problem wont end until large mental health state hospitals are built and we have the ability to commit for long term.

[Mercat]

Our son developed C-diff and we learned to wash hands all the time. That stupid sanitizer does not do it. Each finger has five surfaces. So make sure you wash all of them. I am especially aggressive with the tips and the backs of my hands. And when you’re done, use a paper towel, the blowers are ridiculous, and use one to open the door out of the restroom. Usually there is a wastebasket there. If not, either toss it or drop it on the floor. The manager will eventually get the message. I was never germaphobic before but I am now. My husband caught Hep A canoeing in the Ozarks and it is really awful.

[Mashood]

16 dead and 400 affected in a town of 3.5 million...and this is a crisis? Maybe Congress needs to define or redefine the meaning of “crisis”.

[montag813]

But San Diego could have avoided its hepatitis A crisis — or at least ensured it didn’t get this bad — if its homeless residents had better access to housing

Um...no. Most need to be committed to mental treatment. But because of the ACLU and Whorealdo Rivera...they can't anymore.

[trisham]

Holy cow.

[Chauncey Gardiner]

Wonder how many of these are related to sex practices.

[Mr.Unique]

Downtown is overrun by filthy, drug addled, mentally ill freaks.

[S.O.S121.500]

Thank oBastard for all these filthy mexicans?

[catnipman]

just one of the bad things that happens when the local government could care less if people shit in the streets ...

[mewzilla]

Update, and check out the info about alcohol-based hand sanitizer...

San Diego hepatitis outbreak continues to grow: 481 cases