A homeless encampment in Los Angeles provides a breeding ground for rodent-borne diseases.
Tyler Durden – Zero Hedge Aug 21, 2026
In what can only be described as a stunning failure of state and local policy and leadership, Los Angeles County recorded its highest tally of flea-borne typhus cases in 2025, confirming 220 diagnoses, up from 187 the year before, according to the county’s Department of Public Health. Almost nine in ten of those patients ended up hospitalized. Fleas that feed on infected rats, opossums, and other small mammals carry the bacteria behind the disease to humans, and Los Angeles has watched the case count climb for years. The 2025 total marks the sharpest jump yet.
Dr. Dean Winslow has practiced infectious disease medicine for fifty years. He taught at Stanford, ran COVID-19 testing programs for the federal government, and served as President Trump’s 2017 nominee for assistant secretary of defense for health affairs. Asked whether a typhus outbreak in one of the wealthiest counties in America points to a broader failure in public health and sanitation, Winslow gave a one-word answer. “Absolutely,” he told the Daily Signal.
“It’s largely an issue of … people living in just horrible conditions in close proximity to rats,” Winslow said, naming rodents as the primary vector for the infection’s spread.
The conditions track with the county’s homelessness numbers. Homelessness in LA County rose 3.3% over the past year, and in the city of Los Angeles itself the figure climbed 7.9%, according to data from the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority. Winslow said encampments put residents at heightened risk given their proximity to rats, though he cautioned the problem extends beyond encampments alone.
Asked what he would tell city officials, Winslow said the priority should be to “get a handle again on rat control issues.”
That task has gotten harder since 2020, when Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 1788 into law, restricting the use of four rodenticides over concerns about their effects on mountain lions and other wildlife. Winslow pointed to the restrictions as one likely culprit behind the county’s swelling rat population, since pest-control operators have shifted toward traps and less potent methods in response. “Those may be two reasons why … the rat population is out of control [in LA],” he said.
The county’s own public health guidance seems to put the burden of prevention on residents, telling them to keep pets on flea-control products, avoid stray animals, clear yard debris, secure trash in tightly lidded containers, and report rodents or opossums to animal control. Mayor Karen Bass’s office did not respond to the Daily Signal’s request for comment.
Christopher Rufo, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, examined the county’s internal records for City Journal. His team filed public records requests and received a thousand pages of documents from the county health department. What those documents showed is a public health system bracing for outbreaks it had fallen behind on.
“This is about plague rats that have returned,” Rufo told Hugh Hewitt on the Salem News Channel. “So we did a story, we did FOIA, we got 1,000 pages of documents from the County Health Department in Los Angeles. And the picture that these documents painted was quite grim. You have a return of typhus, you have outbreaks of hantavirus, you have really a plethora of medieval diseases that are on the rise in LA.”
Rufo laid out two forces behind the outbreak. “And there are a couple of causes for this. The first is that the homeless encampments that are scattered, not just in Skid Row, but throughout the city, are the perfect breeding ground for rats. And so now there are millions of rats breeding under the streets of Los Angeles. And the County Health Department admits in these internal documents that they’re not ready for these outbreaks,” he continued. “And at the same time, you have California Governor Gavin Newsom in two separate pieces of legislation in recent years banning all of the most effective rodenticides, so rat poisons that can keep that population at bay. And when you put those ingredients together, you get something that experts predicted in LA seems powerless to stop, which is typhus, including three deaths from typhus in recent years.”
.@christopherrufo: “You have a return of typhus. You have outbreaks of hantavirus. You have a plethora of medieval diseases that are on the rise in L.A.
There are a couple of causes for this. The first is that the homeless encampments that are scattered, not just in Skid Row,… pic.twitter.com/bam0xbUkPb
— Manhattan Institute (@ManhattanInst) August 18, 2026
Three deaths and 220 hospitalization cases in a single year mark a policy failure in a county that absolutely has the resources to prevent it. Encampments stayed in place. Rodenticides came off the shelf. The health department knew what was coming and clearly could not (or would not) stop it. State and local officials built, permitted, and, in some cases, legislated the conditions that allowed the rat population to multiply beneath the streets of one of the wealthiest cities in America.
Anglian water in a statement say they were geared to produce enough water
for one third the people in the country, the mass immigration here now meant corners had to be cut for clean drinking water, and water taken from the same rivers effluent was discharged into meant extra cleansing agents were used which in high doses can be toxic to people.
The Camelford tragedy when too much aluminium was added to drinking water
caused terrible injuries
Chlorine and Fluoride attack the glandular system especially the Thyroid
and aluminium is linked to SDAT, Senile Dementia of the Alzheimer’s Type
Under review at present is the dirty drinking water we now get and the massive upsurge in Prostate cancers.
Anglian Water said this is unproven and anyway out first duty is to our shareholde
chemtrailing is behind respiratory diseases
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVUOj9eU0xg
The BBC sent a guy who looked like he abused steroids. He buzzed the shared intercom “Package for…”
Opened the door: the first thing he did as I was opening it – was to put his foot into the doorway to obstruct…
The door was drawn back, ready to be closed forcefully: he was warned to remove the foot.
If I had not been a male or confident enough to mean it – no doubt he would have continued that intimidation tactic.
What followed was a heated discussion where I was guilty until proven innocent.
After his start – I wasn’t having any of it and reminded him that the burden of proof was his, that he was not welcome and not owed explanation, or anything else.
He blustered and tried all the usual bully tactics… “if you’ve got nothing to hide” etc etc. The answer was NO and he was invited to come back with the cops.
At the time had already given up TV for years in favour of computers and a life outside. Had an old TV stored in the cupboard. Disconnected and dusty. Could have showed him that (and would have had the approach been honest).
Because of that event I avoid the BBC like the plague.
Letters direct to bin.
The answer is still NOT PAYING A LICENCE FEE.
BAN THE BBC
The TV License is one of the biggest “Legal” scams ever written in history. You have to pay for it to watch “Live” TV, but yet ONLY the BBC gets the money from it. The other channels that exist doing live broadcast are just left to their own and make money off of advertisements between show breaks. Yet the BBC only advertises its own content. So the fact that it was written into law as “You need a TV License if you watch Live broadcasted channels or iPlayer” and only the BBC profits from it is the biggest scam ever. We have all been taken for mugs and I think we need to change it by getting rid of it. The BBC can easily change its model by running adverts in placement of its own. It does not need to change it so that it lands in our taxes or we have to start paying it to watch Netflix, Amazon, Disney + etc. BBC iPlayer can become a subscription model as well. The TV License needs the chop. Its done.
you do the same
Typhus isn’t a “medieval disease”. It’s always existed.
And look how they start blaming all the other creatures the filthy humans infected with their shit.
> Homelessness in LA County rose 3.3% over the past year, and in the city of Los Angeles itself the figure climbed 7.9%, according to (yappers).
There’s two things going on there. First, all the immiscum from other parts of America and elsewhere. They enter, have nowhere to live, and become homeless. Second, all the perversion. There’s no better way to spread disease than to directly inject it into someone else.
Go and look and south africa. That has both those problems too, with the exact same result.
The palestinians are saying “returned children” (whatever that means) are missing their hearts, lungs, etc. Homeless people are the main feeding ground for the organ harvesters. The drug companies also have a feeding frenzy. It’s all part of living in a “caring society”.
It was predictable and was predicted. Wait until cholera returns, or as reported recently leprosy was said to have struck somewhere. Even the Victorians realised the importance of public health and paid to improve it, because disease spreads through the classes, it doesn’t bow to titles or wealth.
The classes don’t have to mix socially for disease, parasites and fungal infections to spread between them, they just have to touch the same doorhandles or drink water from the same infected source etc. Today we interact in doctor’s surgeries, superstores, post offices, filling stations and more. And the law courts, where one class generally sits in judgement of the other.
And for the uber-rich who don’t mix with ordinary people at all and have staff to do everything, their staff mix among us then them.
Animal rights activists take over the streets of London
London, UK. 22 August 2026. Animal rights activists march through central London carrying banners and placards
during the National Animal Rights March. The demonstrators call for greater protection and welfare of animals as they make their way through the capital.
Main cause of complaint was Kosher slaughter which just slits the animals throat and it thrashes about in agony
the country wants this banned
That photo is not Los Angeles.
We’ve been living in the dark ages throughout my lifetime.
goog luck for Trumpstein + the jew billioaries ignoring this .
they should flood over hollywood .
DONT WORRY MIXED SOCIETIES WILL
BREAK DOWN SOONER OR LATER :
95% of Lost Angelshit is an abject shit-hole, just like practically all cities in the Jewnited States of Americunt these days. Rather nice weather in LA though, what a waste.
“Dr. Dean Winslow has practiced infectious disease medicine for fifty years. He taught at Stanford, ran COVID-19 testing programs for the federal government..” .. Hard stop and F*CK that Tartuffe grifting terrorist. He should be skinned alive, rolled in salt, then nailed to a rail and set adrift at sea. And the author of this piece should get his teeth bashed out with a brick and hanged from a highway overpass for presenting a pathologically lying terrorist as an “authoritative” source. No f*cking mercy for anyone who went along with the Convid-19(84) war on humanity.
23 August https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-8OqbBmKSY ‘Scandal Brewing: M4.7 has Weakened Campi Flegrei Volcano’s Lid ! INGV – Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia . Removed the Ground Shift…..
Incompetence or deliberate cover up? Professor Giuseppe Luongo goes hard after the Italian INGV that surveils the Campi Flegrei Volcano in Naples Italy ! The mechanical stability may have been altered after the M4.7 earthquake – 31 July 2026/gj- permanently displaced the land horizontally & vertically and Yet the INGV removed that shift & publishes that All Is Normal…/ by On The Pulse w. Silki
‘You need to know…’ / 28.28: “How much longer will the lid of my pressure cooker hold?”
Don’t worry/ A.G.N.I. Absolute Government of Natures Intelligence is every nano sec & every nano micro millimeter always in charge of every thing/ from the omnipresent level of unbounded No-thing-ness
A.G.N.I. man-I-fests & withdraws the entire Maya of this ever expanding uni-verse within Itself anyway you don’t need any man made institution…. the satanic vatican or any satanic govt, etc. usw, for it…
That is what this ‘anti chianti’ brainless – au fond a drumpf maga/miga idiot – is trying to say with all his capital letters/ this great soccer sucker mtf expert from Germany : mixed football teams will always break down will never win any cup….(t)his bs not exactly my cup of coffee….
Kalergi immi tsunami is satanic j. bankers orchestrated any blimd child raped by diablo drumpf can see that / but it is also group karma for (neo) colonial theft of eu/sa of the ‘south’….
19 March 2026 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yenPBVaVGoY white Christian Lady speaking/ 0.22: Sunday…a good day to correct some false teachings & lies that you’ve been told while sitting in church even watching movies/ reading books…./ by Fikazzo….
18 January 2026 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nyMHdct9NI 0.00: ” White theologian Admits: “The Bible Was Changed”? The Hidden Truth Revealed/ listen carefully/ what I’m about to tell you will change everything you thought you knew about the Bible you’ve been reading your entire life.
German theologian/ Gunther Schwarz, a scholar who dedicated his life to Aramaic studies/ he died in 2009 after producing groundbreaking work on Jesus’s original language. This man studied Aramaic every single day for 50 years/ He dedicated half a century to understanding the language Jesus actually spoke when he walked on this earth/ after producing groundbreaking work on Jesus’s original language.
Why do you think/ antichianti/ that crypto fake j. drumpf wants to throw black history in the garbage can (where he himself belongs/ to say the least)….the Bible is black history/ do your homework/ before you close your eyes for ever in this life & go Jenseits….to come back again & again / the Law of reincarnation taught by Yeshua aka Jesus was aborted by churchianity later on…
‘Don’t Sweep Under https://atlantablackstar.com/2026/08/13/at-least-six-black-people-found-hanging/ the Rug’: At Least Six Black People Found Hanging/ Families & Communities Question Quick Conclusions from Police / must sound like music to antichianti’s (& like minded) ears/ get your bananas out of your ff ing ears…
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/at-least-seven-black-people-have-been-found-hanging-this-year-and-police-keep-calling-it-suicide/ar-AA2anXgz
It comes from under the piece of Persian rug (every now & then flying) that diablo pedo crypto fake j. pig-mentality pig kkk riigger of 2024 drumpf has glued on his brainless evil skull….
https://www.gregpalast.com/trump-lost-vote-suppression-won/ Kamala Harris won ( & Tim Walz) 5 November 2024/ very good/ America/ but the money monopoly rotschild fake jews of the synagogue of satan with their strangling tentacles selected their poupee drumpf who smells like hell/ that’s the zionide stench that the US cq the world is currently in…. / “All I can say is: chickens” / Malcolm X”
((( 22 August https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoPkCcnKkdk white Guy speaking/ 1.04: “If
you’re still committed to being a racist in America/ it sucks for you/ because you’re going to have to give up your smartphone ❗️That’s right. A lot of the crucial technology that went into the development of the smartphone was created by black Americans/ many of them attended historically black colleges and universities”/ by Twinshangout Kenya
Lastbutnotleast imv an MC Military Coup asap at warp speed instead of waiting till THSB Trojan Horse Shit Bag drumpf drops dead from his golden toilet bow/ this insane idiot is a danger for the entire world…
Anyway Every Body Anywhere
h.a.n.d. have a nice day 😎
CIA O