Typhus — United States
Typhus — an infectious disease spread by fleas — is sweeping LA County, having infected a city hall prosecutor and more than 100 others. Officials recorded 124 cases of the disease in the county last year [2018], and there is no sign of the spread letting up. The outbreak has largely been seen as exclusively affecting homeless people.
But today, [a] Deputy City Attorney revealed she was diagnosed in November [2018] — blaming the fleas in her office at LA’s City Hall. And the symptoms
…
