{"id":13637,"date":"2025-03-03T17:51:53","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T00:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=13637"},"modified":"2025-03-04T09:59:35","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T16:59:35","slug":"dysentery-cases-rising-in-portland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=13637","title":{"rendered":"Dysentery cases rising in Portland"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A sad side effect of a very permissive city-wide camping policy means that public sanitation has reached dangerous levels. To the level that we&#8217;re having outbreaks of communicable diseases related to feces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bans on urban camping and home codes have been a thing since Hooverville days. Public sanitation can become life and death health concern for urban residents. Sadly, it appears Portland has reached that tipping point, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kgw.com\/article\/news\/investigations\/portland-public-toilets-portable-what-happened\/283-ff025241-95ea-4126-ab70-d62652273998\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.kgw.com\/article\/news\/investigations\/portland-public-toilets-portable-what-happened\/283-ff025241-95ea-4126-ab70-d62652273998\">despite spending $75,000 a month on 130 public toilets<\/a> (that were all destroyed or stolen)<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"378\" data-attachment-id=\"13638\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?attachment_id=13638\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2025\/03\/you-have-died-of-dysentery_u-l-f5tycc0.jpg?fit=550%2C378&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"550,378\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"you-have-died-of-dysentery_u-l-f5tycc0\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2025\/03\/you-have-died-of-dysentery_u-l-f5tycc0.jpg?fit=300%2C206&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2025\/03\/you-have-died-of-dysentery_u-l-f5tycc0.jpg?fit=550%2C378&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2025\/03\/you-have-died-of-dysentery_u-l-f5tycc0.jpg?resize=550%2C378&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13638\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2025\/03\/you-have-died-of-dysentery_u-l-f5tycc0.jpg?w=550&amp;ssl=1 550w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2025\/03\/you-have-died-of-dysentery_u-l-f5tycc0.jpg?resize=300%2C206&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2025\/03\/you-have-died-of-dysentery_u-l-f5tycc0.jpg?resize=393%2C270&amp;ssl=1 393w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Articles:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>News:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.koin.com\/news\/oregon\/dysentery-cases-rise-in-portland-metro-area-health-department-reports\/\">https:\/\/www.koin.com\/news\/oregon\/dysentery-cases-rise-in-portland-metro-area-health-department-reports\/<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/health\/2025\/03\/03\/dysentery-portland-oregon\/81175188007\/\">https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/health\/2025\/03\/03\/dysentery-portland-oregon\/81175188007\/<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mynorthwest.com\/ktth\/ktth-opinion\/rantz-homeless-fecal-matter-behind-explosion-shigella-cases-portland\/3944857\">https:\/\/mynorthwest.com\/ktth\/ktth-opinion\/rantz-homeless-fecal-matter-behind-explosion-shigella-cases-portland\/3944857<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Local forum reports\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/askportland\/comments\/1ht35nm\/what_can_i_do_about_the_human_feces_in_my\/\">https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/askportland\/comments\/1ht35nm\/what_can_i_do_about_the_human_feces_in_my\/<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/Portland\/comments\/czpg2f\/is_it_really_legal_to_take_a_dump_on_the_sidewalk\/\">https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/Portland\/comments\/czpg2f\/is_it_really_legal_to_take_a_dump_on_the_sidewalk\/<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/Maine\/comments\/1gg4bjm\/bodily_fluids_feces_found_in_front_of_business\/\">https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/Maine\/comments\/1gg4bjm\/bodily_fluids_feces_found_in_front_of_business\/<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/Portland\/comments\/120id9i\/today_i_learned_about_the_multnomah_county_pooper\/\">https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/Portland\/comments\/120id9i\/today_i_learned_about_the_multnomah_county_pooper\/<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/Portland\/comments\/1iv05ga\/this_city_never_ceases_to_amaze_me\/\">https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/Portland\/comments\/1iv05ga\/this_city_never_ceases_to_amaze_me\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A sad side effect of a very permissive city-wide camping policy means that public sanitation has reached dangerous levels. To the level that we&#8217;re having outbreaks of communicable diseases related to feces. Bans on urban camping and home codes have been a thing since Hooverville days. Public sanitation can become life and death health concern for urban residents. Sadly, it appears Portland has reached that tipping point, despite spending $75,000 a month on 130 public toilets (that were all destroyed&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=13637\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool","category-local-interest"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-3xX","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13637"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13641,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13637\/revisions\/13641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}