The County of San Diego Health and Human Services Agency and MTS officials are notifying people who used the trolley's blue and orange lines between June 30, 2022, to Dec. 31, 2022.
SAN DIEGO — San Diego County health officials say Metropolitan Transit System Trolley riders may have been exposed to tuberculosis throughout the second half of 2022.
"Once the County is made aware, typically through a test result reported by a medical provider, communicable disease investigators conduct extensive interviews with the patient to determine the length of time they were infected and the locations of potential exposure," the county's press release says."This is done to best inform people who may have been exposed and the action they should take.
Tuberculosis is transmitted between people if they inhale the bacteria from the air. When someone sick with the airborne disease coughs, speaks, sings or breathes, the bacteria spread. If you have had prolonged indoor exposure to someone who is sick with TB, you should get tested, health experts say.
"This is called latent TB infection. Some who become infected with tuberculosis will become ill in the future, sometimes even years later, if their latent TB infection is not treated. Blood tests and skin tests are effective to determine whether someone has been infected," the health officer says."The number of people diagnosed with active TB in San Diego County has decreased since the early 1990s and has stabilized in recent years," the release says.
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