Posted on 10/06/2018 7:38:54 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
LOS ANGELES — An outbreak of flea-borne typhus has hit downtown Los Angeles, the county Department of Public Health said Thursday. Health officials say they are investigating several cases of the disease that infected fleas can spread to humans, CBS Los Angeles reports.
While the fleas can come from cats, rats and opossums, pets and animals do not get sick from typhus.
In people, however, typhus can cause high fever, chills, headache and rash. It is not transmitted from person to person and can be treated with antibiotics.
"Although typhus normally occurs throughout L.A. County, we are observing several cases in the downtown Los Angeles area," Los Angeles County Health Officer Muntu Davis said in a statement. "We encourage pet owners to practice safe flea control and encourage all cities in the county to ensure maintenance of their trash clean-up and rodent control activities."
Typhus can spread in areas where there is an accumulation of trash that attracts wild animals like feral cats, rats and opossums.
To help prevent typhus, the department recommended that residents:
* Practice safe flea control
* Use flea control products on pets
* Wear pants tucked into socks or boots when outside; Spray insect repellent with DEET on socks and pant cuffs
* Avoid being near wild or stray animals
* Never feed or touch wild animals, especially opossums, rats and stray or feral cats
* Store trash in cans with secure lids to avoid attracting animals
* Clear areas where rats and stray animals sleep, hide or find food, such as crawl spaces, attics or under decks; Wear gloves and a mask when clearing these areas
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Please do not insult the dignity and the inherited instinctive wisdom of wild animals by comparing them to the homeless and illegal aliens living in their deliberate putrid squalor on San Francisco and Los Angeles streets.
Unfortunately, these sh!tholers will transmit the fleas/disease to other liberal sh!tholes, like Chicago, New York, etc.
Bringing the African feeling of Home to California
Someone tell LA Mayor Eric Garcetti to concentrate more on the third world conditions he’s creating in his city than his delusional dream of running for president!
The first thing we need to do is stop calling them homeless. They are not. They are vagrants and criminals. To call them homeless applies a degree of victimhood and demands sympathy to their condition.
Crazy politicians bringing the Warsaw Ghetto to Los Angeles.
Just because: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxsOXOPni0o
We need squads of guys with flamethrowers to burn up all homeless encampments. Give ‘em one hour notice and then burn ‘em up! If they’re still in there so much the better!! Enough, already...
Also spread by illegals.
Typhoid Media
LOL!
“An outbreak of flea-borne typhus ...”
Flea-borne disease, huh? Let’s see. What other famous flea-borne disease is there? One that’s already present in the small mammal populations in the Southwest, and already is responsible for around a dozen cases a year?
It’s right here on the tip of my tongue. Oh, yeah. I got it.
THE BLACK DEATH. Welcome to the 14th century, folks.
SoCal is flea paradise. No freezing to kill them off.
Scary. But sad too. Some poor little kids who might otherwise turn out ok grow up thinking that’s how it is.
Flash news break........
That is in fact how it is
Bttt
They better start trapping the invasive rodent nutria that has populated California.
Make California Third World Again.
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