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'This is a big outbreak': Nearly 1 in 5 affected by TB at SF school
https://www.sfgate.com ^ | May 6, 2026 | Gillian Mohney

Posted on 05/07/2026 2:36:53 PM PDT by Enterprise

New data shows 18%, or nearly 1 in 5, of tested students and staff at Archbishop Riordan High School in San Francisco were diagnosed with either latent or active tuberculosis during an outbreak that started in November.

New testing is scheduled to start today.

In total, 96% of the school community was tested, seven people were diagnosed with active cases during the course of the outbreak and 241 latent cases were reported, according to data released by the San Francisco Department of Public Health on April 27 to the school community.

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


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1 posted on 05/07/2026 2:36:53 PM PDT by Enterprise
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To: Enterprise

diversity makes our immune systems stronger?


2 posted on 05/07/2026 2:39:29 PM PDT by MarlonRando
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To: Enterprise

And that’s just students and staff at a SF Catholic high school. What’s the rest of the city look like?


3 posted on 05/07/2026 2:42:08 PM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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To: Enterprise

Invite turd world; get turd world diseases.


4 posted on 05/07/2026 2:43:00 PM PDT by vpintheak (The left is violence.)
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To: mikey_hates_everything
" What’s the rest of the city look like?"

Great question! We probably won't know until half of California is exposed.

5 posted on 05/07/2026 2:43:41 PM PDT by Enterprise (Dear President Trump: With Iran, if you're going to shoot - shoot. Don't talk. )
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To: Enterprise

TB is rampant in rural China.

Dots. Connect ‘em.


6 posted on 05/07/2026 2:44:48 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: Enterprise

November outbreak? And we (publicly) are only being told about it today?


7 posted on 05/07/2026 2:49:24 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE
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To: Enterprise

How could a Third World disease be found in San Francisco?


8 posted on 05/07/2026 2:51:28 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Import The Third World,Become The Third World)
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To: Enterprise

This comes from unvetted immigrants. Duh.


9 posted on 05/07/2026 2:57:13 PM PDT by stanne
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To: Gay State Conservative

Same way the Black plague landed there from China over 150 years ago.


10 posted on 05/07/2026 3:01:56 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (REOPEN THE MENTAL HOSPITALS CLOSED IN THE 1970s!)
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To: Enterprise

Two youngsters died of TB on my mom’s family side...100-120 years ago!


11 posted on 05/07/2026 3:02:55 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom ( )
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To: Enterprise

With so many drug resistant TB strains this is a disaster. Brought to us by Biden and the democrat bringing in millions of illegal invaders, the cause of so much death, violence & misery.


12 posted on 05/07/2026 3:09:50 PM PDT by JayGalt (A never ending battle for Truth, Justice & the American Way.)
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To: Enterprise

Wear a mask.

Hantavirus outbreak live updates: 12 countries put on high alert for Hantavirus as passengers from ill-fated cruise return home

https://nypost.com/2026/05/07/world-news/hantavirus-outbreak-from-cruise-ship-live-updates/


13 posted on 05/07/2026 3:10:52 PM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: Enterprise

There are schools in Minneapolis where the illegal migrant kids do not attend school at all, and their parents / handlers do not leave the house (for fear of ICE) - so the schools have arranged food to be delivered to illegal migrant homes in the middle of the night.

Public education has become a corrupt-as-hell force for destruction of the USA


14 posted on 05/07/2026 3:16:03 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: Gay State Conservative

Through unvetted illegal aliens 👽.


15 posted on 05/07/2026 3:39:46 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: vpintheak

How true.


16 posted on 05/07/2026 3:40:06 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...

17 posted on 05/07/2026 3:45:05 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (TDS -- it's not just for DNC shills anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
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