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LA's Low Shelter Numbers

The number of homeless people far exceeds the number of shelter beds in Los Angeles County. This greatly differs from other major cities within the US.

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Sleeping Rough

The Homeless Population is scattered all over LA city proper and LA county, but skid row is the most popular place known for the homeless in LA.

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1) “The current concern with new microbial threats has developed in at least four overlapping but distinct domains: emerging infectious disease; bioterrorism; the cutting-edge life sciences; and food safety”

2) “’Global health’ is a second field in which health threats have been problematized in new ways.”

3) “The regulation of what Ulrich Beck calls “modernization risks” comprises a third field in which biosecurity has been newly problematized.”

4) “Although there is a great sense of urgency to address contemporary biosecurity problems— and while impressive resources have been mobilized to do so — there is no consensus about how to conceptualize these threats, nor about what the most appropriate measures are to deal with them.”