Posted on 01/05/2024 9:02:00 PM PST by bitt
Portland, Oregon has a serious homeless problem and now it’s about to get worse. Much worse.
The disease of Shigella is spreading in the city, mostly through the homeless population, and to make matters worse, it spreads in a disgusting way, through fecal matter.
Aside from the ethical matter of allowing people to live on the street, one of the biggest issues is the threat to public health. This is why you don’t want a large population of people living in tents and using streets as a bathroom.
FOX News reports:
Portland health officials report waste-borne illness rampant among city’s homeless
Portland, Oregon, is grappling with a cluster of a highly infectious illness that spreads through fecal matter and puts the city’s large homeless population at high risk, according to health officials.
“While we are currently seeing an increase in Shigella cases in the Portland metro area, the risk to the broader public remains low at this time and there are no measures for most folks to take at this time. The best thing we can all do to prevent both respiratory viral illness and diarrheal illness is to keep practicing good hand hygiene,” Multnomah County Deputy Health Officer Teresa Everson said in a comment to Fox News Digital.
Portland and surrounding areas closed out 2023 with 227 documented Shigella cases, health officials in Multnomah County told Fox News Digital on Thursday, 45 of which occurred in December alone. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) describes Shigella as bacteria found in fecal matter that can infect someone if ingested. The illness can cause people to experience bloody and prolonged diarrhea, fever, stomach pain, and “feeling the need to pass stool (poop) even when the bowels are empty.”
Shigella can be spread through sex, drinking contaminated water, changing diapers or caring for someone sick with the illness.
Truly disgusting.
Portland Residents Suffering From Deadly Disease Caused by Human Poop. ❌Health official have warned of a massive surge in shigella cases in Portland due to the widespread contamination of human excrement in the city.♀️ Shigella is a deadly bacteria that spreads via fecal matter,… pic.twitter.com/oCUiuBUiuo
— Wtfportland (@Wtfportland1) January 2, 2024
Leftists in Portland were crazy for masks and vaccines during COVID. Where are they now? Who wants to live like this?
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No matter...they deemed themselves a sanctuary city. So enjoy the new residents, you fools!!
“The best thing we can all do to prevent both respiratory viral illness and diarrheal illness is to keep practicing good hand hygiene,”
How about pooping in a toilet instead of on the street?
Liberals deserve to suffer their sins.
Shigella is the bacteria. The disease is shigellosis.
The primary symptom is diarrhea.
“”keep practicing good hand hygiene””???
Only in a leftist hell hole would the solution to disease be hand washing.
I can just see the do-gooders with backpacks, passing out Handy Wipes.
The Homeless Industrial Complex will demand more billions for the “Handy Wipes for the Homeless” campaign. All kinds of new staff will be hired (and the necessary office space, of course).
People will be trained on “How to Teach Proper Hand Washing To The Schizophrenic.”
I think Shigella rang up my meal yesterday at McDonalds.
Sounds like a future Ivy League graduation requirement.
Well, ain’t that the sh!its?
Cholera, typhoid and typhus are up next.
You can’t have a third world country unless you have endemic diseases due to poor hygiene and sanitation.
I thought we were headed to Argentina, but it looks more and more like we’re going to skip the second world and head right for Congo.
Well put but they sure are dragging down the country.
Shigella causes disease in primates, but not in other mammals; it is the causative agent of human shigellosis. It is only naturally found in humans and gorillas. During infection, it typically causes dysentery.
Shigella is a leading cause of bacterial diarrhea worldwide, with annually 80–165 million annual cases (estimated) and 74,000 to 600,000 deaths. It is one of the top four pathogens that cause moderate-to-severe diarrhea in African and South Asian children.
Hand washing is racist.
As long as it kills Democrats, I’ll stand aside and watch.
Actually the new residents have paid housing, food healthcare and whatever else they may need. Citizens are tossed into the streets.
This is a good enough reason to demand that they live like normal human beings. Damn bums and hobos.
What we NEED is PROGRAMS, to educate people on how to hand out TURD POLISH and show the people through the PROGRAMS to properly POLISH their TURDS with hygienic CLEAN HANDS before ingesting them. This is a product of WHITE SUPREMACIST RACIST EXPLOITATION that the people are undersupplied with TURD POLISHING PROGRAMS.
It’s not hard to imagine that is not the only bacteria or virus being spread around there. I see a revival of the seventies diseases coming back with a vengeance.
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