TB outbreak at SF school affects nearly 20% of population

Nearly one in five school community members have been infected with tuberculosis, requiring medical intervention and potential isolation.

In San Francisco, a school community has been quietly overtaken by tuberculosis — a disease ancient in its persistence and modern in its disruption. Nearly one in five people connected to the campus have been affected, a scale that transforms what is usually a scattered, individual illness into something systemic and collective. Public health officials now face the slow, painstaking work of tracing invisible threads of transmission through hallways, homes, and shared air — a reminder that even in an era of medical sophistication, the oldest pathogens still find their way through the spaces whe

TB outbreak at SF school affects nearly 20% of population

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