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Last Updated: 6-17-2009 TB NEWS:
***UPDATE***
---------- Washington State TB Statistics **New** World TB Day 2009 Fact Sheet (63 KB PDF) World TB Day 2008 Fact Sheet (159 KB PDF) A Glance at Washington's TB Epidemic 2006 (123 KB PDF) Washington State Cohort Review (139 KB PDF) Washington State Foreign Born TB Cases (153 KB PDF) (Infectious Cases) (163 KB PDF)
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The Tuberculosis (TB) Program is responsible for the prevention, control and coordination of TB within Washington State.
Program components include:
- Technical assistance and health education to local health departments, health professionals, and communities.
- Medical consultation (TB Consultation Form) (19 KB PDF).
- Disease and laboratory surveillance.
- Assistance with contact investigations.
The mission of the TB Program is to help provide a healthier environment in Washington State by reducing or eliminating TB through identification of TB cases and detection and prevention of TB infection.
Priorities include:
- Diagnosis and treatment of disease.
- Access to TB screening; identification of groups at high risk for TB.
- Monitoring adherence to and completion of treatment.
- TB laboratory activities.
- Implementing community partnerships in the efforts against tuberculosis.