Posted on 05/07/2026 5:42:43 PM PDT by MtnClimber
First, it was in Southern and Central California. Now it’s traveling north in the state.
he headline on a San Francisco news website is stunning: “‘This is a big outbreak’: Nearly 1 in 5 affected by TB at SF school.” Certainly, when I was growing up and living in San Francisco, such a headline would have been unimaginable, but now tuberculosis is a growing problem in California, a state with the single largest illegal immigrant population in America.
According to SFGATE:
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. (Emphasis mine.)
[snip]
Tuberculosis remains a problem for California, where cases hit a 12-year high in 2025 with 2,150 reported. The state also had a “substantially higher” rate of disease in 2025 than the U.S. overall, the department said, with 5.4 infections per 100,000 people compared with about 3 per 100,000 nationwide.
The news about Riordan follows reports from last week that two California high schools—one in San Diego, in the southernmost part of the state, and one in Fresno, in Central California—had experienced TB outbreaks. TB’s surge in both those regions made sense, given
that they are where most of California’s enormous illegal alien population clusters. And yes, the fact that they’re illegal matters, because it means that they come from impoverished countries rife with disease
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With all of the crackdown on COVID compliance and they let this happen?
TB cant fool normal people, therefore it can’t win an election for the communists.
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I believe the only “disease” that the Hussein/Biden Regime DID NOT welcome into the United States is capitalism.
For all diseases, the Hussein/Biden Regime motto was
Come On Down!
That’s San Fransh(*sco the only place I know that has a web site to Track and Map piles of Sh(*.
San Francisco Poop Map A
https://www.arcgis.com/apps/View/index.html?appid=b6fab720912642b6aedafdb02a76d2a4
Daily Mail Online: Interactive map reveals the staggering number of human waste on San Francisco’s streets
https://www.openthebooks.com/daily-mail-online-interactive-map-reveals-the-staggering-number-of-human-waste-on-san-franciscos-streets/
San Francisco’s poop statistics: Are we measuring the wrong thing?
https://www.tonym-v.com/blog/2020/2/4/san-franciscos-poop-statistics-are-we-measuring-the-wrong-thing
The piles of sh(* make Tuberculosis feel at home........
Columbo: “Just one more question, do you think this outbreak of TB is from Swiss immigrants and tourists?”
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