The Los Angeles Police Department are funding homeless encampments completely crawling with rats LAPD is calling this a health and safety hazard and making it impossible for people with disabilities to use sidewalks 5 medieval diseases are having resurgences in Los Angeles linked to homelessness and poor sanitation conditions Flea-borne Typhus (Murine Typhus) Spread by fleas on rats and other animals in trash-filled areas. LA County has seen repeated outbreaks, with record highs in recent years Tuberculosis (TB) A bacterial lung infection historically associated with crowded, unsanitary conditions. Outbreaks have been reported in Skid Row and among homeless populations in...