Can This Quote From An Article Be True?

'Medieval diseases spreading in Los Angeles', California, 

apparently it is as from Jan. 1, 2018, through Feb. 1 of 2019, there were 167 cases of typhus in the state, up from 125 in 2013 and 13 in 2008, according to the California Public Health Department, last November Deputy City Attorney Liz Greenwood became one of the statistics as she was diagnosed with typhus, which she claims came from fleas carried by rats that are infesting City Hall and an adjacent building, City Hall East, where she worked, Greenwood filed a $5 million lawsuit against the city, claiming she contracted typhus because the mayor and others in the city government did not clean up garbage on nearby streets, which allowed rats and fleas to flourish,

Typhus was first described in the late 15th century, it is estimated that 17,000 Spanish soldiers died of it during the siege of Granada in 1489,(only 3,000 died in battle), since it was so prevalent in prisons, it was dubbed gaol or jail fever, in 1759, English authorities estimated about 25 percent of all prisoners in England died of gaol fever per year. In the 18th century, the disease was named typhus, from the Greek smoke or stupor because of the symptom of delirium, and in case you are wondering why doctors wore the beaked hat, though the beak mask has become an iconic symbol of the Black Death, there is no evidence it was actually worn during the 14th Century epidemic, medical historians have in fact attributed the invention of the ‘beak doctor’ costume to a French doctor named Charles de Lorme in 1619, He designed the bird mask to be worn with a large waxen coat as a form of head-to-toe protection, modelled on a soldier’s armour, the costume was worn by plague doctors during the Plague of 1656, which killed 145,000 people in Rome and 300,000 in Naples, the reason behind this was that it was thought that the plague was transmitted by bad air, have a long beak filled with for instance lavender it would protect you from the plague, a medieval disease in LA, caught in the city by a Deputy City Attorney, who would have thought it?