The typhus outbreak in Los Angeles County is getting worse... For awhile now, public health officials have been telling us that the disease was mostly affecting the homeless. But that's just not the case anymore.
Last November, Liz Greenwood was diagnosed with typhus. Liz is a veteran Los Angeles City Hall official, and a Deputy City Attorney that works in City Hall East.
"It felt like somebody was driving railroad stakes through my eyes and out the back of my neck," Greenwood told the NBC4 News I-Team . "Who gets typhus? It's a medieval disease that's caused by trash." She believes she contracted the disease from fleas in her office. Fleas are known to live on rats, and rats are known to live around the trash bins across the city.
"There are rats in City Hall and City Hall East," she added. "There are enormous rats and their tails are as long as their bodies."
Poster Comment:
Only serious when it happens to bureaucrats.