The Public Health Services also discovered that this student attended Cerritos College in Norwalk, CA from the summer of 1999 to February 2000. After a routine investigation, the Department of Public Health Services sent approximately 300 letters to students, faculty, and counselors at the Norwalk campus who may have had a significant contact with the infected student. As a precautionary measure, those receiving the letter were advised to have a Tuberculosis screening exam as soon as possible. Any of the Public Health Offices in Southern California and the Cerritos College Student Health and Wellness Center can provide free TB screening to those presenting the letter sent from the Department of Public Health Services. Not everyone exposed to TB will become infected and not everyone who becomes infected will develop active TB disease.
Tuberculosis is preventable, and can be cured when proper diagnosis and treatment are rendered.