SAN DIEGO -- A local teacher recently diagnosed with swine flu said she is angry and disappointed with how her diagnosis was handled, 10News reported.

Bay Park resident Yolanda said it took nearly two weeks and two hospital visits for her to find out she had the highly contagious disease, putting family members and the public at risk of exposure.

Yolanda told 10News she felt like she was "the last to know" about her test results.

"I said, 'Do you think I have it?' And the blood technician said, 'That's why we're drawing blood,'" said Yolanda.

Yolanda, an elementary school teacher, was admitted to Scripps Mercy Hospital on July 22. She was released three days later after a doctor told her what she had was a viral infection.

"He let her go. The doctor said, 'I don't think you have the swine flu.' And he discharged her on the 25th feeling awfully sick still," said Yolanda's brother, Mike.

Mike said his sister was so sick that he and his wife took her to their house to keep an eye on her.

"She just lay here, lethargic … just lay here," said Mike.

Yolanda, now resting at home, received a phone call Monday from a public health nurse who delivered the news she had feared all along -- she tested positive for swine flu.

"My first concern was for my loved ones," said Yolanda.

"Why did he send her home? To expose me and my family … we're all pretty upset about it," said Mike.

A Scripps Mercy spokesman told 10News he could not comment on Yolanda's case due to privacy issues.

The San Diego County Health and Human Services Agency issued a written statement that said, "During this interview process it became obvious the patient had not been informed of the positive test result by the doctor. We directed the patient back to the doctor for follow-up."

Thirteen days after she first went to the hospital, Yolanda has a prescription for Tamiflu.

"Something like this happens, it's scary. I just want people to hear that this is going on right in our own backyard, in our own hospitals," said Mike.

No one else in Yolanda's family has gotten sick, but she said she is worried about all of the people she came in contact with.