Rotting Trash Piles Sky-High in LA, Attracting Rats and Raising Concerns of a New Epidemic

nbclosangeles.com ^ | May 20, 2019 | By Joel Grover and Amy Corral

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WHAT TO KNOW

• Last year, a record 124 typhus cases were reported in Los Angeles County

• The city's most notorious trash pile in downtown LA was cleaned up, but that didn't last

• Other large U.S. cities, like New York and Washington DC, have teams devoted to aggressive rat control

Rat-infested piles of rotting garbage left uncollected by the city of Los Angeles, even after promises to clean it up, are fueling concerns about a new epidemic after last year's record number of flea-borne typhus cases.

Even the city's most notorious trash pile, located between downtown LA's busy Fashion and Produce districts, continues to be a magnet for rats after it was cleaned up months ago. The rodents can carry typhus-infected fleas, which can spread the disease to humans through bacteria rubbed into the eyes or cuts and scrapes on the skin, resulting in severe flu-like symptoms.

The NBC4 I-Team first told Mayor Eric Garcetti's office about the piles of filth in the 700 block of Ceres Avenue in October. At the time, he promised to make sure trash doesn't pile up like that.

The garbage was cleaned after the interview, but conditions have worsened over the next seven months.

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More at the link, including unbelievable footage of trash piles in the 3rd world city known as LA.

[Tea Party Terrorist]

Republican Budget Cuts.

[dfwgator]

LA - America’s Mexican city.

[wally_bert]

More taxes immediately.

[sparklite2]

Even on LA local TV, they
pronounce it Los HAN-ge-liz.

[dfwgator]

[wally_bert]

Los An-gle-ess grates on my ears more.

[samtheman]

The taxes are high but balanced out by high piles of garbage.

[dfwgator]

Why should San Franciscans have all the fun?

[gibsonguy]

The competition for the country’s worse mayor is pretty stiff. Garcetti and De Blasio are going to be tough to beat.

[RayChuang88]

It won’t take much for a major outbreak of an easily communicable disease in Democratic-controlled cities at the rate things are going.

[DannyTN]

So if we got rid of the trash, we would get rid of the ‘rats?

But of course I repeat myself.

[karnage]

It’s not garbage. It’s environmentally-friendly compost!

[sparklite2]

When you start hearing, “Press 2 for English,” run.

[blueunicorn6]

Is this more of that high city culture the city dwellers always talk about?

“I vote Democrat and look what it got me.....rats.”

[dfwgator]

You mean there’s an option for English? Who knew?

[sparklite2]

Chicago’s black lesbian mayor
is making a move on the inside.

[NorthMountain]

Rat-infested piles of rotting garbage are emblematic of the democRAT Party.

[dfwgator]

I want to live in Los Angeles
Not the one in Los Angeles
No, not the one in South California
They got one in South Patagonia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuLllNyfiHs

[corlorde]

Trump’s fault.