Typhus cases hit 100 in Los Angeles as feral cats and rats spread disease among the homeless

UK Daily Mail ^ | October 31, 2018 | Charlie Moore and Stephen Matthews

[C19fan]

The number of flea-born Typhus cases in Los Angeles has hit 107.

So far this year 72 patients have been recorded by Los Angeles County Department of Public Health with a further 15 in Long Beach and 20 in Pasadena.

In the 2000s there were around 20 cases recorded per year and analysts are putting the dramatic rise down to a 47 per cent increase in homelessness since 2012.

One official in Long Beach told NBC News that almost half a million potential cases are 'under investigation.'

[Ronald_Magnus]

No find that one. Find this one.

[mass55th]

Sure...blame the cats.

[Hoosier-Daddy]

There is no Typhus in Moscow. Err... Los Angeles.

[MoochPooch]

Venice is hardcore lefty, but they’re going total NIMBY over this. These lefties are all compassionate until you put the problem on their doorstep to deal with!

My girlfriend, a bleeding-heart liberal, lives in Venice. She told me about the homeless encampment a block away from her, and how she is now afraid to go out at night.

Funny how she changed her tune about the homeless: "There are two kinds: the ones who ran out of money, the others who are criminal or mentally ill. For the second group, I have no pity."

This reminds me of the classic definition of a conservative: "A liberal who got mugged."