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"Texas continues to see a rise in typhus cases, a troubling trend for the flea-borne, occasionally fatal disease once thought to have been wiped out in most of the United States.
The Texas health department reports there were 519 cases of typhus in 2017, more than three times the number in 2010. The uptick represents the fourth consecutive year that the number has increased."
So you did a Google search to find out if anywhere else in Texas and at any time also had Typhus cases so as not to make LA look like the current garbage heap that it is? Hey, the bright side is that you don't have to worry about fouling the environment with those nasty plastic straws.
Downtown LA office workers are fearful of getting typhus and for good reason its a disease of the medieval ages caused by filth that has made a sudden come back to LA recently.
Contrary to what is claimed, it is not a disease of the "medieval ages."
There were Typhoid epidemics during the Civil War. Many POWs in Union or Confederate prison camps died of Typhoid. I had a family member die of Typhoid in a Union prison camp in Virginia in 1862.
There was also a Typhoid epidemic in Cincinnati in the 1910s and 1920s.
The standard procedure for Typhoid was to burn the bodies.
You cannot bury Typhoid victims, you have to burn the bodies to kill it.
You can see photos of funeral pyres burning Typhoid victims in the Cincinnati Enquirer, Cincinnati Post and several other now-defunct newspapers.
It was also standard practice in the 1930s and 1940s, and Typhoid often swept through concentration camps and the bodies were cremated.
I was just down in LA a couple weeks ago; it was nice. Good weather, everything was green, less smog than SLC and no apparent signs of epic rat infestation or medieval plague.
I was just down in LA a couple weeks ago; it was nice. Good weather, everything was green, less smog than SLC and no apparent signs of epic rat infestation or medieval plague.
Just sayin'
I was there last fall. Take a trip over by the convention center and over to "skid row". Complete s-hole. The roads are crap, way overcrowded, dirty. The only remotely decent thing was the weather.
"Texas continues to see a rise in typhus cases, a troubling trend for the flea-borne, occasionally fatal disease once thought to have been wiped out in most of the United States.
The Texas health department reports there were 519 cases of typhus in 2017, more than three times the number in 2010. The uptick represents the fourth consecutive year that the number has increased."
OP seems to be confusing Typhus with Typhoid and endemic vs epidemic. Typhus is spread by fleas/ lice. Typhoid is spread by contaminated food and water.
Texas seems to be leader in Typhus infections in the US with more than 500 cases reported and tracked, 3 x more than in 2010. Climate is a factor.
Typhus responds well to antibiotics and sometimes clears up on its own.
"Texas continues to see a rise in typhus cases, a troubling trend for the flea-borne, occasionally fatal disease once thought to have been wiped out in most of the United States.
The Texas health department reports there were 519 cases of typhus in 2017, more than three times the number in 2010. The uptick represents the fourth consecutive year that the number has increased."
Typhoid is maintly caused through dirty untreated water.]
And democrat leadership.......
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