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General information about tuberculosis

Quarterly surveillance report (PDF)

Data through March 31, 2010

General information

Common questions about tuberculosis
What is TB and how is it spread? What are its symptoms and how do you treat it? Get your basic questions about tuberculosis answered. Information available in English, Vietnamese, Chinese, Korean, Spanish, Somali and Russian.
Facts about BCG vaccine
Bacille Calmette Guerin (BCG) is made of a live, weakened strain of Mycobacterium bovis. It was developed in the 1930s and it remains the only vaccination available against tuberculosis today.
Facts about QuantiFERON-TB Gold test
Blood test for latent TB infection (external link to the CDC.)

Tuberculosis periodical reports (PDF)

Tuberculosis Quarterly Surveillance Report (data through March 31, 2008)

TB 2009 Annual Report 2009 Annual TB Report
The TB Program remains committed to controlling the spread of TB in King County, but narrowed its focus in 2009 to managing the highest-priority cases of public health significance in response to funding cuts due to budget deficits. In addition to redesigning its case-management model, the TB Control Program also began work to shift the care and management of less-severe TB cases to local community partners.
TB 2008 Annual Report 2008 Annual TB Report and Online Supplement to the Annual Report
Efforts in 2008: Due to an all time high of reported active TB cases and a large outbreak in individuals from the Marshall Islands the previous year, two full-time public health nurses and an outreach worker were added to the staff in the last half of 2007 with supplemental county funding. The supplement contains additional programmatic and epidemiologic data.
TB 2007 Annual Report cover 2007 Annual TB Report
In 2007, King County reported 161 cases of active tuberculosis (TB) disease, representing an 11% increase from the 2006 count. King County had a TB rate of 8.6 cases per every 100,000 individuals; this rate remains higher than the national rate (4.4 per 100,000 in 2006).
TB 2006 Annual Report cover 2006 Annual TB Report
In 2006, King County reported 145 cases of active tuberculosis (TB) disease, representing an 18% increase from the 2005 count. King County had a TB rate of 7.9 cases per every 100,000 individuals; this rate remains higher than the national rate (4.8 per 100,000 in 2005).
TB 2004 Annual Report cover 2005 Annual TB Report
In 2005, King County reported 127 cases of active tuberculosis (TB) disease. This represents a 5 percent decrease from the 2004 count and marks a continued decline since 2002 when 158 TB cases, a 30-year historic high, were reported.
TB 2004 Annual Report cover 2004 Annual TB Report
In 2004, King County reported 133 new cases of confirmed tuberculosis. This represents a decline of 14% from the 2003 rate due to the TB Control Program’s intensive efforts to reduce the TB burden among at-risk populations, particularly aimed at the homeless population.