"L.A. Crawling With Rats, Fleas & Homeless: An Epidemic Waiting To Happen?"

Rats rule the streets of Los Angeles--and we don't mean politicians (exactly).

According to NBCLA News, "The city's rodent population is exploding and posing a serious health risk", while experts say L.A.'s rat problem is out of control.

"The rat problem," reports NBCLA, "is not only confined to downtown L.A., but is growing more visible across the city."

Cameras spotted rats in surrounding areas along with mountains of trash and feces teeming with cockroaches, lice, and fleas generated by miles of homeless encampments.

According to Conservative Review: "In a throwback to medieval times, Los Angeles is facing an infectious disease epidemic caused by flea-borne disease linked to rat-infested streets. Last October, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health issued a health alert surrounding an outbreak of flea-borne typhus in the homeless population in the downtown area.

A month later, Deputy City Attorney Liz Greenwood was diagnosed with typhus, which she claims came from fleas carried by rats that are infesting City Hall, where she works.

"There are rats in City Hall," Greenwood said. "There are enormous rats and their tails are as long as their bodies."

Last year set a new record for the number of typhus cases--124 in L.A. County, according to the California Department of Public Health.

But Dr. Drew Pinsky, radio host and addiction medicine specialist, made a frightening prediction last week:

"I want to give you a prediction here. There will be a major infectious disease epidemic this summer in Los Angeles.

"We have tens and tens of thousands of people living in tents. Horrible conditions, sanitation. Rats have taken over the city. We're the only city in the country, Los Angeles, without a rodent control program. We have multiple rodent-borne, flea-borne illnesses, plague, typhus. We're gonna have louse-borne illness. If measles breaks into that population, we have tuberculosis exploding. Thousands of lives may be at risk, not only in L.A., but in San Francisco, and maybe even San Diego."

Pinsky compared local politicians to Nero, the infamous Roman Emperor who fiddled while his nation burned.

A wise man once said: "It's like nothing I've ever seen in my life. I feel like I'm on a train track waving at the train and the train is going to go off the bridge. The bridge is out and the California politicians are giving me the finger. I want to go after them for reckless negligence." -- Dr. Drew Pinsky

"There will be great earthquakes, and there will be famines and epidemics in many lands, and there will be terrifying things and great miraculous signs in the heavens."  (Luke 21:11)

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