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posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday September 13 2017, @04:45PM   Printer-friendly
from the crappy-job dept.

San Diego workers will power-wash streets with a bleach solution in an attempt to stop the spread of Hepatitis A:

At least 15 people have died in San Diego from an ongoing hepatitis A outbreak. In an effort to stop the spread of the viral liver disease, city officials have begun power-washing streets across the downtown area, according to NBC San Diego.

As of Monday, workers dressed in protective white gear and red hard hats were seen outside spraying the sidewalks with a bleach-based liquid in hopes of killing the virus that lives in human feces. "We're probably going to be doing them every other Monday, see how that works out at least for the time being," Jose Ysea, a city spokesman, told NBC San Diego.

The high-pressure power-washing system using bleach will hopefully remove "all feces, blood, bodily fluids or contaminated surfaces," according to a sanitation plan included in a letter delivered to San Diego city officials, the Associated Press reports. For now, just streets in San Diego are being washed, but in the near future hand-washing and street-sanitizing efforts will be implemented in other cities in the region, Dr. Wilma Wooten, the region's public health officer, told the AP.

Also at LA Times. San Diego outbreak page.

Previously: San Diego Declares Emergency Due to Outbreak of Hepatitis A


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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by Spook brat on Wednesday September 13 2017, @08:05PM (2 children)

    by Spook brat (775) on Wednesday September 13 2017, @08:05PM (#567431) Journal

    Note the very top comment: "Homeless people are not just normal people on hard times".

    Agreed on the premise, disagreed on the conclusion.

    You are advocating rejecting them from society, rather than helping society adjust to their presence. You have said repeatedly that they have no place in society, I say we need to make a place for them. Giving them a label that marks them as outsiders/"other" serves only to bring us closer to the atrocities committed in WWII-era Germany, it does not solve our problem.

    These homeless are US, in some cases members of this very website community. Show the homeless among us the sympathy you'd hope for if you were in their place, please.

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  • (Score: 0, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 13 2017, @08:09PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 13 2017, @08:09PM (#567436)

    ... I wouldn't be fucking around on SoylentNews, and I wouldn't be shitting in the streets.

    • (Score: 2) by Spook brat on Thursday September 14 2017, @08:05PM

      by Spook brat (775) on Thursday September 14 2017, @08:05PM (#568057) Journal

      ... I wouldn't be fucking around on SoylentNews, and I wouldn't be shitting in the streets.

      What would you be doing, then? Be specific, please. Given the situation that you are (a) homeless, (b) needing to defecate, (c) alone on the street after business hours, what action would you take?
      Answer a second time, please, with the added assumption that you are now ill, and are suffering from diarrhea. Because people sometimes get ill when living on the street.

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