San Diego County Notifying High School Community of Possible TB Exposure

Published on August 2, 2024

SPRING VALLEY, Calif.—San Diego County’s Tuberculosis Control Program is working with Grossmont Union High School District to notify students, staff and volunteers potentially exposed to tuberculosis (TB) during the second semester of the 2023-24 school year at Mount Miguel High School. The school, at 8585 Blossom Lane in Spring Valley, had a potential risk for TB from Feb. 1 to June 4, 2024. The county and Grossmont Union High School District will be coordinating TB testing, and x-rays when appropriate, for people who health investigators have identified as having been exposed. TB is an airborne disease that is transmitted from person-to-person through inhalation of the bacteria from the air. The bacteria are spread when someone sick with TB coughs, speaks, sings, or breathes. People with frequent and prolonged indoor exposure to a person who is sick with TB should get tested....

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