Vile disease that sees flies lay eggs in humans could ravage LA in wake of warehouse fire

Panic at the disco rice.Soaring temps and mounds of waste could make a cold-storage warehouse in Boyle Heights the ideal breeding ground for human-infecting flies, a city-commissioned health inspection found.The four-page report obtained by NBC Los Angeles focuses on the Lineage Facility in Boyle, which suffered fire damage last month, leaving millions of pounds of meat to rot.However, as the company struggled to remove the putrid protein, another health concern arose — noxious odors, rodents, hygiene concerns and a biblical plague of green bottle flies.“There’s a lot of flies because of the warehouse situation coming over here,” Boyle Heights resident Ashley told NBC of the pestilence.According to the inspection, these tiny winged terrors green bottle flies reproduce rapidly in waste and that the hot weather sweeping LA is only accelerating their spread.Officials worry that this pestilence will metastasize to nearby neighborhoods.Along with being noisy and unsightly, these emerald-colored bugs can also cause myiasis, a potentially deadly infectious disease that occurs when the critters lay eggs in the “open wounds” of humans or animals, per the report.“This disease can cause irritation, ulcers, and in some cases even death,” it stated, noting that the swarms could people and animals around the facility at risk.The scourge has gotten so bad that some residents have sequestered themselves inside their homes with the doors and windows closed to keep the flies from getting in.The crisis has made locals fret over what they’re putting in their mouths.

“We can’t even eat food,” Martin Ramirez, 49, who manages a nearby body shop, told the Los Angeles Times.“Imagine that a fly lands on it.

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