Los Angeles County reported the first deaths from flea-born typhus in nearly three decades last year, as concerns continue about the effects of persistent and growing homelessness on public health.
A former Nazi concentration camp secretary was found guilty of complicity by a German court Tuesday in the murders of over 10,000 prisoners during the Holocaust.
Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson warned that conditions among homeless people in many California cities were so bad they could “foster an epidemic, if we’re not careful.”
“The people of San Francisco are fed up, and the people of Los Angeles are fed up,” Trump said.
Dr. Drew Pinsky said Friday that Los Angeles faces an imminent outbreak of bubonic plague because of the growth of the homeless population and the failure of state and local authorities to deal with rodent problems.
This comes just weeks after an NBC 4 report about an “infestation in Los Angeles City Hall of rats and fleas linked to typhus disease.”
A typhus epidemic is spreading in Los Angeles, and has moved beyond the homeless population, according to a report by local NBC News affiliate KNBC-4.
Health officials warn that an outbreak of flea-borne typhus is now taking place in downtown Los Angeles.
