{"id":762285,"date":"2026-04-29T22:16:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T22:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/762285\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T22:16:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T22:16:21","slug":"tuberculosis-exposure-confirmed-at-justin-garza-high-school-in-fresno-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/762285\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuberculosis exposure confirmed at Justin Garza High School in Fresno County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; Health officials have confirmed a tuberculosis exposure at Justin Garza High School in Fresno County.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Officials say there is one active case of the infection with someone at the school. They did not specify if it was a student or a staff member.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Although there is an active infection, officials clarified there are no contagious cases on campus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Twenty-two of the 169 exposed have tested positive for the infection but are not actively showing symptoms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Health officials are working closely with the school on contact tracing and testing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Staff and students are being urged to stay home if they are feeling sick.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Some of the tuberculosis symptoms include coughing up blood, a cough for over three weeks, fatigue and unintentional weight loss.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Tuberculosis typically affects the lungs and appears in two forms: active and inactive, also known as latent TB.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KFSN-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; Health officials have confirmed a tuberculosis exposure at Justin Garza High School in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":762286,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[11],"tags":[313284,313282,210,313281,313283,37656,74120,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-762285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-313284","tag-fresno-county","tag-health","tag-justin-garza-high-school","tag-student-exposure","tag-timely","tag-tuberculosis","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116490311387401833","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762285","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=762285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/762286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=762285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=762285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=762285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}