Encampment on 3rd Ave between Rose and Sunset.

Los Angeles County Department of Public Health has now declared an outbreak of Hepatitis A in Los Angeles County.

Los Angeles County now has ten cases of Hepatitis A and health department now considers this an outbreak. Two cases were locally acquired. Five cases were attributed to San Diego and Santa Cruz and two were acquired in a health facility with one who already had the disease, totaling three. Where the cases are is not known at this time.

The video does not say who the person is who is talking but one assumes it is a spokesperson for the Center for Disease Control.

Many stories have been written in Venice Update lately about the efforts of Rick Swinger to clean up 3rd Ave and the alleys surrounding it. Efforts have been made to stop the dumping of the perishables. Efforts have been made to get the City to clean and sanitize 3rd. Last Friday the City roped off Rose from Hampton to 3rd and cleaned and sanitized it. Third was then sanitized. Third used to be cleaned and sanitized every week but budget or another reason stopped the cleaning. This time it took the fourth week.

It is not just the residents surrounding the area who are concerned, it is the homeless too who are tired of having rats crawl over them at night. They too feel the area is filthy and tell all that it should be cleaned.

Rick Swinger has taken it upon himself to raise the money and supervise the cleanup that the City was doing until last Friday. He has a go fund me account. He has used the money to clean an alley of feces, haul dumped perishables away, and recently one homeless person threw feces at a resident’s home and that was cleaned.