DR. DREW PINSKY: We have complete breakdown of the basic
needs of civilization in Los Angeles right now. We have the three prongs of
airborne diseases, tuberculous is exploding, rodent fleas. We are one of the
only major cities in the country that does not have a rodent control program.
Sanitation has broken down. We had a typhus outbreak last year, we will have
typhus this summer. I'm hearing from experts that bubonic plague is likely,
it's already here, it will get onto the rat fleas. And then now finally we have
this oral-fecal route contamination which is tyhpoid fever. Three cases. One
confirmed, probably three. This is unbelievable.
I can't believe I live in a city where -- this is not third-world, this is Medieval. Third-world countries are insulted if they are accused of being like this. No city on earth tolerates on this. The entire population is at risk. And God forbid is measles. This is a population that's suboptimally immunized. If measles gets in, I just have an image of myself on my knees in the gutter tending to people.
I can't believe I live in a city where -- this is not third-world, this is Medieval. Third-world countries are insulted if they are accused of being like this. No city on earth tolerates on this. The entire population is at risk. And God forbid is measles. This is a population that's suboptimally immunized. If measles gets in, I just have an image of myself on my knees in the gutter tending to people.
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