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San Diego's homeless population has been hit hardest by the highly contagious hepatitis A virus.
The outbreak, which began in November, has spread after vaccination and educational programs in the city failed to reduce the infection rate. The virus attacks the liver.
The public health declaration bolsters the county Health and Human Services Agency's ability to request state assistance to fund new sanitation measures. Areas with high concentrations of homeless people will receive dozens of portable hand-washing stations. Health workers will also use bleached-spiked water for power-washing contaminated surfaces.
Dr. Wilma Wooten, the San Diego Public Health Officer who signed the declaration into law on Friday, says the sanitation precautions are modeled after similar programs in other Southern California cities - including Los Angeles.
Also at Voice of San Diego, The San Diego Union-Tribune, and LA Times.
(Score: 0, Troll) by Ethanol-fueled on Monday September 04 2017, @07:59PM (1 child)
I don't know about MDC but phoney bums are a big problem here in San Diego, in the beachfront communities.
They're basically rich-kids who in childish bouts of misguided rage got mad at daddy and their upper middle-class Connecticut lifestyles and decided to become drifters. They literally beg for your dollars on the street corner and then get right into their Audis and drive off somewhere else. I actually dig the beach-bum culture but only when real authentic bums are involved -- people living out of beat-up hippie vans who have actually hitchhiked their way across the USA, or perhaps foreign countries, and have cool stories to tell.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 04 2017, @09:09PM
Those aren't rich kids, they're leftover devs from Daybreak Games/SOE.