Panic on campus as college students exposed to drug-resistant contagious disease

Source: New York Post

A troubling health alert is rattling a Southern California campus after officials revealed that students and staff may have been exposed to a dangerous, drug-resistant strain of tuberculosis. San Diego County health officials sounded the alarm on Thursday, warning that anyone who set foot on the Southwestern Community College campus in Chula Vista between late October and mid-December 2025 might be carrying the dangerous, hard-to-treat bug. The case involves multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) — a rare but more serious form of the disease that does not respond to standard antibiotics, making it harder and longer to treat.