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World’s deadliest disease rips across California as clusters discovered at schools (tuberculosis)
NY Post ^ | 4/30/26 | Nina Joudeh

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.

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


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; Education; History
KEYWORDS: aliens; asylum; california; democratcorruption; democratincompetence; disease; illegals; immigration; migration; refugees; schools
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To: Libloather

Wow, TB is not just any infection. It takes months of advanced antibiotics. A stash of Cipro or Doxycillian isnt going to help if TB goes pandemic.


21 posted on 04/30/2026 3:02:15 PM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: LukeL

“”Consumption hits California? What’s next? Ague, grippe, dropsy, lumbago? I thought we got rid of these 1800s conditions.””

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We did. But that was back before we got stupid enough to allow an ‘enemy within’ (The Democrat Party) to gain control of positions of power that allowed them to make really bad decisions and really bad laws that are destructive to the nation.


22 posted on 04/30/2026 3:02:33 PM PDT by Danie_2023 (I'm America First, but I stand by Israel and against 'anyone' that acts against America or Israel.)
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To: ridesthemiles

TB patients can vote for Democrats.


23 posted on 04/30/2026 3:07:28 PM PDT by Bobbyvotes (Work is worship. Instead of praying, I did more work & became more wealthy. )
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To: Libloather

Don’t worry even though there are 200 cases, none of them is contagious. As far as students or staff, well it is mandatory to have a tuberculosis screening before you can be employed in a California public school and you have to be recertified every five years. The weakness in the screening system is that you can simply say you don’t have tuberculosis and they take your word for it.


24 posted on 04/30/2026 3:07:32 PM PDT by webheart (Notice how I said all of that without any hyphens, and only complete words?)
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To: Libloather

In a related story, The People’s Republica of Kalifornia has ordered all school children be housed with the children already infected. A Kalifornia Apparatchik familiar with the situation stated that, in the name of equity, it would not be “fair” for only some of the children to contract the disease.


25 posted on 04/30/2026 3:08:15 PM PDT by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try. )
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To: Libloather

Not This...


26 posted on 04/30/2026 3:08:37 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (Resist Satan's Tyranny )
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To: Libloather
Every time I played this Scherzo, my piano professor called it "Ketchup on the Keys". Took me years to track down the movie scene:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8h_LOke7V7Y "A Song To Remember" a cheesy 40's Chopin biopic

27 posted on 04/30/2026 3:12:26 PM PDT by Sirius Lee ("Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.)
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To: Libloather

It is highly likely that this is “ordinary” TB, not one of the drug-resistant varieties. A slow moving disease, they first try out the simplest antibiotics, then wait and look for dead bacteria. If no luck, they try the next strongest antibiotic, then wait, etc.

There has only been one known outbreak of Totally DR TB, in India, and it had a 100% mortality rate.


28 posted on 04/30/2026 3:13:41 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("We come in peace. Don't look too carefully at our menus.")
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To: LukeL

leprosy ...


29 posted on 04/30/2026 3:20:08 PM PDT by catnipman ((A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil))
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To: Sirius Lee

Do you pass out after every performance? Totally worth it.


30 posted on 04/30/2026 3:20:43 PM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: Libloather; All
Consider the tuberculosis-related threads in FR. Cases here and there evidently nothing new.
FR: Tuberculosis

Election year too.

31 posted on 04/30/2026 3:32:30 PM PDT by Amendment10
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To: LukeL
You could throw cholera in there too. Surprised it hasn't made the list.
32 posted on 04/30/2026 3:36:07 PM PDT by jmacusa ( Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots.)
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To: Steely Tom

San Ysidro is The Border..
20 miles East of The Ocean the terrain turns Stark,Mountains and canyons just Made for illegal Crossing all the Way to Yuma AZ .


33 posted on 04/30/2026 3:37:18 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (Resist Satan's Tyranny )
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To: Libloather

TB is deadliest? I would have put my money on malaria.


34 posted on 04/30/2026 3:37:49 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye." (John 2:5))
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To: ridesthemiles
WHOEVER THOUGHT THAT ALLOWING MILLIONS OF PEOPLE INTO THE USA FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD WITHOUT ANY HEALTH SCREENING WAS A GRAND IDEA???

I'm going to take a wild guess here but……Bill Gates? Anthony Fauci? The entire Democrat Party?

35 posted on 04/30/2026 3:47:46 PM PDT by liberalh8ter ( This tagline has taken the month off to attend the inauguration.)
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To: Libloather

The Newscum disease.


36 posted on 04/30/2026 3:48:42 PM PDT by Vision (“Our Democracy” means "Our Slush Fund." The Left is hate.)
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To: ridesthemiles
"WHOEVER THOUGHT THAT ALLOWING MILLIONS OF PEOPLE INTO THE
USA FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD WITHOUT ANY HEALTH
SCREENING WAS A GRAND IDEA???"

Let's see; Democrat Party, Obama, Biden, Bush 1&2,
Democrat Party media, free traders (traitors), non-white
poor countries, Chinese Communist Party. The list is long.

37 posted on 04/30/2026 3:49:58 PM PDT by StormEye
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To: ridesthemiles
Well, clearly the members of the Democrat/Communist (now, Jihadist) Party truly believe it was a grand idea as they continue the fight against deporting the disease-carrying illegals.

I think it's partly due to the obvious fact that so many Democrats/Communists (now, Jihadists) are afflicted by the truly deadful, rational-mind-destroying affliction known as TDS. As the affliction advances inexorably to Stage 4 TDS, you can almost see their mind dissolve; the only redeeming factor being that they are then qualified to run for office on the Democrat/Communist (now, Jihadist) ticket.

38 posted on 04/30/2026 3:50:14 PM PDT by glennaro (2026: The year to crush the growing internal communism and jihadism in our free Republic)
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To: Libloather

bfl


39 posted on 04/30/2026 3:56:24 PM PDT by frog in a pot (Are they already inside the wire? See open borders and not paying TSA payroll during war.)
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To: Libloather

Should make the plastic straw ban statewide


40 posted on 04/30/2026 3:58:28 PM PDT by daku
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