Innovation High School and county officials are warning of possible tuberculosis exposures at the charter school\u2019s Chula Vista learning center this summer.<\/p>\n
The county has worked with the school \u2014 part of the Learn4Life network<\/a> of charter schools<\/a> \u2014 to notify people at highest risk of infection and is offering free screenings for some students and staff.<\/p>\n The exposure period was from June 1, 2025, to Sept. 4, 2025, county officials said Tuesday evening. The school\u2019s principal did not immediately respond to an emailed request for comment sent after business hours.<\/p>\n Learn4Life schools are non-classroom-based, independent-study charter schools and serve some of the state\u2019s most vulnerable students<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Chula Vista learning center \u2014 one of several that make up the San Diego charter school \u2014 enrolls 430 students, but they\u2019re not all typically there at once. During a recent visit, a few dozen were working quietly with teachers, with each other or on their own, and teachers were holding two optional small-group classes.<\/p>\n Tuesday\u2019s TB exposure warning from the county comes after a flurry of other recent warnings of possible tuberculosis exposures in South County schools. Sweetwater Union High School District had two TB<\/a> notices<\/a> this year and one last year<\/a>.<\/p>\n Tuberculosis spreads through inhalation of bacteria in the air when an infected person coughs, speaks, sings or breathes, county officials explained. Anyone with frequent or prolonged indoor exposure to an infected person should be tested, and brief interactions are less likely to lead to infection.<\/p>\n Symptoms of active TB include persistent cough, fever, night sweats and unexplained weight loss, said Dr. Sayone Thihalolipavan, the county\u2019s public health officer. Most people who become infected don\u2019t get sick immediately.<\/p>\n \u201cSome who become infected with tuberculosis will become ill in the future, sometimes even years later, if their latent TB infection is not treated,\u201d said Thihalolipavan.<\/p>\n It\u2019s especially important for those who are immunocompromised or have symptoms to rule out active TB and discuss preventative treatment.<\/p>\n Treatments are available for active TB. People who test positive but have no symptoms should seek a chest X-ray and consult a medical provider, since treatment in this dormant stage can cure infection and prevent getting sick.<\/p>\n Originally Published: October 7, 2025 at 6:48 PM PDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Innovation High School and county officials are warning of possible tuberculosis exposures at the charter school\u2019s Chula Vista…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":285313,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,407,210,1370,728,50,3549,7264,7289,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-285312","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-education","12":"tag-health","13":"tag-latest-headlines","14":"tag-local-news","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-san-diego","17":"tag-sandiego","18":"tag-top-stories-sdut","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-united-states-of-america","21":"tag-unitedstates","22":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","23":"tag-us","24":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}