The San Francisco Department of Public Health on Monday confirmed a case of active tuberculosis in an individual connected to Archbishop Riordan High School.
Health officials said the person is in isolation and emphasized that the risk to the broader public remains low. They did not specify whether it was a student or a faculty member.
Tuberculosis, or TB, is an infectious disease that spreads through the air when someone with active TB in their lungs coughs, speaks, or breathes near others over a prolonged period…