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Typhus Epidemic Worsens in Los Angeles
2019-02-02
h/t Instapundit
A veteran Los Angeles City Hall official is one of the latest victims of an epidemic of the infectious disease typhus that continues to worsen across LA County.

For months, LA County public health officials have said typhus is mainly hitting the homeless population.

But Deputy City Attorney Liz Greenwood, a veteran prosecutor, tells NBC4 she was diagnosed with typhus in November, after experiencing high fevers and excruciating headaches.

"It felt like somebody was driving railroad stakes through my eyes and out the back of my neck," Greenwood told the I-Team. "Who gets typhus? It's a medieval disease that's caused by trash."
Common in Third World Countries
Posted by:g(r)omgoru

#3  Was exposed to typhoid from an inlaw in nw Alaska decades ago. A relative died and an autopsy was done —-typhoid fever. State epidemiologist asst came up interviewed a bunch of us. Got shot that made me feel crappy for a day. But still kicking.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2019-02-02 22:24  

#2  "There are rats in City Hall and City Hall East," Greenwood added. "There are enormous rats and their tails are as long as their bodies."

You taking about the two-legged ones?
Posted by: Bobby   2019-02-02 17:13  

#1  ...what? Waiting on cholera , dysentery, and the plague before you relearn modern public sanitation and cleanliness? Lie down with the dogs, get up with fleas.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2019-02-02 15:14  

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