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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) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 05 2017, @01:20AM (1 child)
Maybe Ethanol or others around SD can chime in, but from what I know most of the homeless in SD are non-hispanic white men. Do you have any data on this being an immigrant problem?
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday September 05 2017, @01:54AM
In San Diego, or any other city, undocumented and/or unwanted people are going to be mixing in the shadows. The homeless, the criminals, the illegal aliens, and anyone else who wants to stay out of sight of officialdom all share more or less common areas. Look at your own home city. Where do you find anything illegal? Prostitutes? Illicit drugs? A hit man? Doesn't almost all the crime happen in a more or less central area? Big cities might have multiple shadowy areas, but society's unwanted will still congregate in them. "Decent people" just stay the hell away from the area.
Illegal aliens will be "homeless", by definition, when they arrive here. They may spend days, or even weeks, among the homeless. But, they arrived here with some kind of a mission in mind, so they aren't going to stay long in a homeless camp. They came here BECAUSE they have places to go, things to see, and people to do, so they are moving on soon.