Typhus and Tuberculosis Are Spreading in Homeless Populations - The Atlantic

Typhus and Tuberculosis Are Spreading in Homeless Populations - The Atlantic:

• Typhus, tuberculosis, and other illnesses are spreading quickly through camps and shelters.

"...this homeless encampment off a Hollywood freeway ramp is often littered with needles and trash and soaked in urine. 

Rats occasionally scamper through, and Millar fears the consequences.

...Infectious diseases—some that ravaged populations in the Middle Ages—are resurging in California and around the country, and are hitting homeless populations especially hard..."
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