L.A. Times Reporter Meghan Daum Felled by Fleas

This morning, veteran Los Angeles Times reporter Meghan Daum shares Part 2 of her harrowing tale about how what she thought was a simple flu virus turned out to be a nearly fatal case of typhus. Transmitted via the nightmarish urban scenario of flea feces and infected, backyard rodents.

Daum begins by answering some of the voluminous reader e-mail that came in after Part 1. She explains why the diagnosis took so long and also assures that her case was an extremely rare scenario that others need basically not worry about being duplicated.

Ultimately,

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