An LAPD Officer Working Downtown Contracted Typhoid, Another Employee May Have Typhus

Last Wednesday I wrote about the massive pile of rat-infested garbage in downtown Los Angeles which had the potential to become a breeding ground for disease. As NBC 4 reported, the city had been called multiple times but seemed to be in no hurry to clean up the mess despite the fact that there was a typhus outbreak (connected to fleas living on rats) in this same area last year. Maybe that will finally change now that this has happened. Yesterday the LAPD released a statement saying an employee had contracted typhoid. A second employee is displaying symptoms consistent with typhus. The two diseases sound similar but are each caused by a distinct type of bacteria spread in different ways.-- More...