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posted by martyb on Monday September 04 2017, @06:34PM   Printer-friendly
from the wash-your-hands dept.

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/09/03/548299633/san-diego-declares-health-emergency-amid-hepatitis-a-outbreak

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.


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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Sulla on Tuesday September 05 2017, @05:33AM (1 child)

    by Sulla (5173) on Tuesday September 05 2017, @05:33AM (#563664) Journal

    Having seen the type of people shitting on the streets in the major west coast cities I think this is not something we can blame on aliens (although some of those fine folks on the streets think they can talk to aliens). The normal sort I see on the streets are deadheads who fried their brains on LSD, hippies who baked their brains on too much pot, alchoholics who did what alchies do, or 16-24 year olds who think living on the streets makes them free.

    Smelling feces while I walk to work really makes me happy to live in a modern progressive welcoming city.

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  • (Score: 2, Informative) by ants_in_pants on Tuesday September 05 2017, @06:23PM

    by ants_in_pants (6665) on Tuesday September 05 2017, @06:23PM (#563854)

    Don't forget tweakers and schizophrenics.

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