A Los Angeles police station was being disinfected Wednesday after officials learned one officer was sickened with typhoid fever and a second employee was exhibiting salmonella typhi-like symptoms.
The employees both work in LAPD's Central Division, which patrols most of downtown L.A. and Chinatown as well as parts of Echo Park and Elysian Park, Officer Mike Lopez with the agency's media relations department said.
The person with typhoid fever is being treated for the life-threatening disease, caused by the bacterium salmonella typhi, the department said in a news release.
The illness is not common, with only about 350 people in the U.S. diagnosed with typhoid fever each year. Usually people contract it after traveling abroad to places like India, Bangladesh and Pakistan, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Wake up America!
ReplyDeleteThis is what the future of our country will be if you keep electing dumbocrats.
This is happening all over the first world. When you let in filthy superstitious people with no rudimentary science or hygiene plagues that we have long eradicated and we assumed we have long been immune to are now haunting us. It's happening all over the European Union and now here. CLOSE THE PORTS AND BORDERS. This is not the worlds promised land. Stay home and build your own communities and nations. We will gladly sell you Arms.
ReplyDeleteAHHHH. The ILLEGAL immigrant stoked AGAIN.
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