To All,
Apparently the West Coast cities have so many homeless people living in cardboard and tent dwellings that they have "Poop" patrols you can call to have feces picked up by city workers. Rodents are out of control and disease is rapidly getting out of control: measles, typhoid, and bubonic plague. Soon to follow will be cholera, norovirus, and rickettsial.
Bubonic Plague: The three most common forms of plague are: Bubonic plague, an infection of the lymph nodes; Pneumonic plague, an infection of the lungs; Septicemic plague, an infection of the blood . Symptoms include fever, headaches, and vomiting.
Cholera: A highly contagious disease that results in severe diarrhea, dehydration, and death if left untreated.
Measles: A blotchy, reddish-brown skin rash typically develops 4 days after viral exposure. Usually it starts with blotchy discoloration on the face, particularly around the hairline, then gradually extends to the neck, shoulders, arms, torso, legs, and feet.
Norovirus: Infection include vomiting, watery diarrhea, and stomach pain.
Rickettsial:
Signs and symptoms differ slightly depending on the type of rickettsial disease. However, like other viral or bacterial exanthems, most patients experience fever, headache, and malaise (feeling generally unwell) and a widespread rash of some description.
Rocky mountain spotted fever
- Fever, headache, confusion, aching muscles, gastrointestinal symptoms
- Rash from day 2–3, consisting of of small red blotches on wrists and ankles that become widespread and sometimes blister
- 20% of cases do not develop rash (spotless rocky mountain spotted fever)
Rickettsialpox
- Headache, chills, aching muscles, runny nose, sore throat, nausea and vomiting, abdominal pain
- Red raised spot develops at site of mite bite, later forming a dry scab (eschar)
- Rash distributed on the face, neck, trunk and extremities, and is easily confused with rash of varicella (chickenpox)
Boutonneuse fever
- Fever, headache, malaise, aching muscles
- In half the cases, a dry scab known as a tache noire (black spot) develops
Louse-borne typhus
- Fever and intractable headache
- Rash initially splotchy, developing into raised red spots
Murine typhus
- Similar to louse-borne typhus but tends to have a milder and shorter course
- Flea bite does not have an eschar
Scrub typhus
- Generalised swelling of the lymph nodes is common
- Fever and headache
- Rash occur 1–3 weeks after a mite bite and is a dry scab-like lesion
- Rash usually only around the trunk and has a short duration
Typhoid: Poor appetite, headaches, generalized aches and pains, fever, and lethargy.
Typhus: Fevers and chills, body aches, nausea, vomiting, or a rash, which usually occurs around the fifth day of being sick.
I'm reminded of the old "
MAD Magazine" Alfred E. Neuman:
What Me Worry?
Bobby Jo