In 2025, Los Angeles County documented an all-time high of 220 flea-borne typhus cases, up from 187 cases in 2024.

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A Los Angeles County Department of Public Health release or surveillance dashboard reporting a full-year 2026 flea-borne typhus case count that can be compared against the 2025 total of 220, and any county record that states a measured attribution between homeless encampments and typhus incidence rather than listing encampments among several contributing environmental factors.

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1. 2026-08-17T02:01:40.281Zcaptured headline

   Los Angeles Faces Record Typhus Cases from Homeless Encampments

2. 2026-08-17T02:01:40.281Zscreenshot timestamp

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3. 2026-08-17T04:05:00.000Zsubject identity

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   The typhus page is served from the department's own publichealth.lacounty.gov domain under its Acute Communicable Disease Control program; registry review of the organization entity remains pending.

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4. 2026-08-17T04:05:00.000Zatomic claim

   In 2025, Los Angeles County documented an all-time high of 220 flea-borne typhus cases, up from 187 cases in 2024.

   The county page states verbatim: 'In 2025, an all-time high of 220 cases were documented. This marks a continued rise from 187 cases in 2024 and reflects a sustained upward trend in recent years.' The record year is 2025, not 2026.

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5. 2026-08-17T04:05:00.000Zprimary source evidence

   The LA County Department of Public Health flea-borne typhus page preserves the 220-case 2025 all-time high, the 187-case 2024 comparison, the sustained-rise language, and the Central and South Los Angeles cluster geography.

   The page was fetched directly at HTTP 200 from the issuing health department's own domain and the saved response body was SHA-256 hashed.

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6. 2026-08-17T04:05:00.000Zprimary source evidence

   The County of Los Angeles announcement titled 'Public Health Reports All Time High of Flea-Borne Typhus Cases', dated April 2, 2026, is the dated origin of the all-time-high finding.

   The release was fetched directly at HTTP 200 from lacounty.gov, the title was confirmed verbatim in the response body, and the saved body was SHA-256 hashed. The publication date establishes that the record figure was announced in April 2026 and describes calendar year 2025.

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7. 2026-08-17T04:05:00.000Zresolution evidence status

   The record case count is fully supported by the issuing authority, but two elements of the captured headline are not. The record is for calendar year 2025 and was announced in April 2026, so it is not a current-period record; and the county's own typhus data section attributes localized clusters geographically without stating a measured link to homeless encampments.

   Direct fetch of the issuing authority's page and its dated release resolved the count precisely while leaving the headline's temporal framing and causal attribution unsupported by the primary record. No verdict on the headline is recorded here.

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