Posted on 04/30/2026 2:36:45 PM PDT by Libloather
California health officials are scrambling after tuberculosis exposures were confirmed at multiple schools as cases of the world’s deadliest infectious disease continue climbing across the state.
Fresno County officials confirmed a cluster at Justin Garza High School, where one active infection was found, though authorities did not specify whether the case involved a student or staff, according to ABC30.
Officials emphasized no one on campus is currently contagious, but 22 out of 169 people exposed have tested positive for the infection, though they show no symptoms yet.
Health officials are teaming up with the school for contact tracing and testing, urging anyone who feels unwell to stay home.
Symptoms of tuberculosis can include coughing up blood, a cough lasting more than three weeks, fatigue, and unintentional weight loss.
The bacterial disease, which typically attacks the lungs, appears in both active and latent forms.
Meanwhile, San Diego County officials announced Wednesday a potential TB exposure was also reported at Sunset Elementary School in San Ysidro.
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WHOEVER THOUGHT THAT ALLOWING MILLIONS OF PEOPLE INTO THE USA FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD WITHOUT ANY HEALTH SCREENING WAS A GRAND IDEA???
Consumption hits California? What’s next? Ague, grippe, dropsy, lumbago? I thought we got rid of these 1800s conditions.
Well gee maybe that is what happens when you flood a state full of illegals for votes
My first thought was that it was MAGA Republicans that would be to blame, because it’s inconceivable to think that the tens of thousands of homeless crackheads laying around the street swapping needles and God knows what else with with each other, coupled with hundreds of thousands if not millions of unvaccinated illegals pouring across the southern border would be the cause
Wait a second! I actually figured out the cause. Global warming. You’re welcome.
I would love the see the disease tracking on these cases.
I think it’s a safe bet that the affected are illegals who brought it in.
I remember a few years ago a California Elementary School had an immigrant-based outbreak of Hanson’s Disease aka. Leprosy.
World’s deadliest disease???
For several decades previous to our present open-borders era, it barely existed in the USA.
So what happened to bring it back???
Trumps’s fault of course.
Isn’t San Ysidro right on the Mexican border?
Thank you Jao BiXiden....
Fixed it.
TB is rampant in China.
It got so bad in the 40s the government built sanutariums and quarantined those with it.
Very contagious.
Huge places with square miles of land. Totally self-sufficient. Farming, cattle, chicken, pigs.
One was in central west Arkansas just outside Booneville. Ark.
It closed in 1970.
Yup
Yes, WORLD’S deadliest.
Great insight. That takes care of my post.
Great insight. That takes care of my post.
The greatest numbers seem to be Asia and Africa.
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