RATS CAUSING PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS IN CALIFORNIA
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An ever-growing number of rodents in California — particularly in Los Angeles — is being fueled by a spiking homeless population and restrictions on rodenticides that are risking a public health crisis, according to a study released Tuesday.
The report by political action committee Reform California cites recent rodent-related events over the past six months, including an employee at the Los Angeles Police Department contracting Typhus and a rat falling from the ceiling of a Buffalo Wild Wings onto the menu of a patron, as proof of an “undeniable problem” in the Golden State.
Our July First Friday Prayer Conference Call with California Mayor Bill Wells analyzed why California is in the terrible straits it is in, and interceded for the crisis there.
California is being overrun by rodents,” said Carl DeMaio, chairman of Reform California. “Without immediate emergency action by state and local government, we face significant economic costs and risk a public health crisis.”
Rodent’s can carry dangerous diseases such as typhus, plague and salmonella, in addition to their roles contributing to asthma.
“Contrary to common belief, being bitten by a rodent is rare and is not the most common way diseases are spread. Nonetheless, reports of city workers being bitten by rodents are on the rise – with most recent cases being reported in Los Angeles,” the report notes. “Two other vehicles of transmission are far more prevalent: fleas and urine droppings.”
The study also surveyed 23 pest control companies in California, and found that all of the reported that rat service requests were up almost 60 percent in the past year. Included in the study was a list of “rattiest cities” in the nation published by the pest-control company Orkin, which named Los Angeles as the second most rat-infested city in the nation behind Chicago.
At a press conference at Los Angeles City Hall on Tuesday, DeMaio there were two particular reasons behind the rodent explosion.
“First, the homeless population increase, which provides a source of food which supports population growth,” he said. “Second, many local governments, including Los Angeles, have banned the most effective practices for detecting and eradicating rats.”
About three-quarters of the nearly 59,000 homeless people counted in Los Angeles County in the past year were living outdoors, fueling concerns of a growing public health crisis with piles of garbage and rats near homeless encampments lining downtown sidewalks.
Reform California said the rodent population can be controlled using the most effective tools for pest control, but Los Angeles discontinued use of second-generation anticoagulant rodenticides in 2014, a move the group claims that led to the spike.
The report, spearheaded by DeMaio and various vector control industry leaders, asks Gov. Gavin Newsom to declare a public health emergency in the Golden State and require public entities to address the situation. It also calls on the state Legislature to oppose Assembly Bill 1788, which seeks to outlaw certain rodent-deterring products that use more robust chemicals but have concerned environmentalists….
(Excerpted from Fox News.)
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God, write Your law on the leaders hearts. May they make decisions with justice and wisdom. In every decision they make, help them choose rightly.
To You be all the glory, for You are sovereign over all the earth. Amen.
Lord, please help California with the health conflict and filthy conditions of some areas. We know the answer is in You. It is a terrible situation to be in no matter the reasons, or political views. Does the end justify the means, and it is the result of political disorder. Here we have a first hand testimony of whether it was right or not to allow so many people across our borders, and a bird’s eye view of the consequences!
Corruption and homelessness under the umbrella of “we don’t care” at the bottom all started at the TOP.
“Righteousness (at the top) exalts a nation but sin (corruption) in a reproach unto any people.”
Spiritually corrupted hearts at the top reap a physically corrupted and infested rotten environment.
Pretty simply to understand, but these words will be over looked or dismissed by blaming everyone else except leadership.
A state rises and falls on its leadership at the top. Prayer and repentance is the starting block for CA!!!
We have destroyed our cat population by fixing all of them. Cats would keep them under control. God said, “Be fruitful and multiply” to the animals as well as humans.