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2019-02-04 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Los Angeles Is Dealing With A Deadly, Flea-Borne Typhus Outbreak

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Posted by Besoeker 2019-02-04 03:32|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Third Worlders gotta third world.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-02-04 03:49|| 2019-02-04 03:49|| Front Page Top

#2 Is the plague next?

Posted by Tyranysaurus Clavith3514 2019-02-04 07:15|| 2019-02-04 07:15|| Front Page Top

#3 "Who gets typhus? It's a medieval disease that's caused by trash."

You just answered your own question, Mr. We have lots of poop and needles everywhere.

This is why those pesky and racist sanitary laws were put in place.

Morons.

Posted by DarthVader 2019-02-04 09:31|| 2019-02-04 09:31|| Front Page Top

#4 It's a medieval disease that's caused by trash."

And a modern disease caused by Democrats.

Posted by AlanC 2019-02-04 11:57|| 2019-02-04 11:57|| Front Page Top

#5 It should be noted that there is no commercially available typhus vaccine, so it must be dealt with the old-fashioned way — by cleaning up the landscape to reduce flea-carrying rats, and dealing with the homeless so the trash-producing encampments aren’t reestablished elsewhere.

Posted by trailing wife 2019-02-04 12:02|| 2019-02-04 12:02|| Front Page Top

#6 It should be noted that there is no commercially available typhus vaccine, so it must be dealt with the old-fashioned way — by cleaning up the landscape to reduce flea-carrying rats, and dealing with the homeless so the trash-producing encampments aren’t reestablished elsewhere.

Posted by trailing wife 2019-02-04 12:02|| 2019-02-04 12:02|| Front Page Top

#7 Typhus vaccine, how hard to make a batch?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-02-04 12:11|| 2019-02-04 12:11|| Front Page Top

#8 I don’t know about how hard it is to make, g(r)omgoru,but taking it requires frequent repeats. Per Wikipedia:

One typhus vaccine consists of formaldehyde-inactivated Rickettsia prowazekii. Two doses are injected subcutaneously four weeks apart. Booster doses are required every six to twelve months.

Posted by trailing wife 2019-02-04 12:40|| 2019-02-04 12:40|| Front Page Top

#9 Easier to keep the fleas down with DDT.
And it wouldn't hurt to pick up the garbage. Unless, of course, public sanitation is considered to be a form of white supremacy.

Posted by SteveS 2019-02-04 12:54|| 2019-02-04 12:54|| Front Page Top

#10 Doxycycline

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-02-04 12:56|| 2019-02-04 12:56|| Front Page Top

#11 I'm sure its Trump's fault!

(yes I better put a big huge /sarc tag here..)

Posted by CrazyFool 2019-02-04 13:32|| 2019-02-04 13:32|| Front Page Top

#12 Sanitation Engineering ... little things like keeping raw sewage from littering the streets does wonders for the urban mortality rate. Cities used to have a negative population growth for most on human history.

Posted by magpie 2019-02-04 15:23|| 2019-02-04 15:23|| Front Page Top

#13 The fleas that tease Los Angeles

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2019-02-04 18:36|| 2019-02-04 18:36|| Front Page Top

#14 getting inoculated against Typhus and Cholera are standard fare when travelling to third world country's. Nepal, Sri Lanka, India, Egypt, Haiti, etc.

Posted by 746 2019-02-04 18:54|| 2019-02-04 18:54|| Front Page Top

#15 "Cities used to have a negative population growth for most on human history." Now they contribute to mass overpopulation, pollution, and Liberalism

Posted by 746 2019-02-04 18:55|| 2019-02-04 18:55|| Front Page Top

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