• Los Angeles County recorded the first deaths from flea-born typhus in nearly three decades last year, as concerns continue about the effects of persistent and growing homelessness on public health.
• Flea-borne typhus was tied to three deaths in Los Angeles County last year amid a rise in reported cases of the illness, according to a report released Thursday.
• In 2019, some critics of the city’s homelessness policy began warning about the outbreak of infectious diseases like bubonic plague.

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