More than 500 children need to be tested within the next week, local health officials said, and younger ones will be given preventive drugs. It’s an unusually large tuberculosis exposure of ...

A Washington woman who was arrested after she refused tuberculosis treatment has finally been cured. Local health officials obtained court orders to compel the patient to isolate and take ...

If the next steps are successful, M72 would be the first new vaccine in a century to target tuberculosis, a disease that killed 1.6 million people in 2021.

A Washington state woman who got tuberculosis and was arrested after refusing to isolate or take medication has been cured, health officials announced. advertisement.

TB is one of the most common illnesses in the world. There are around 10 million new cases every year. According to health officials, Washington averages about 200 cases of TB each year.

Woman with tuberculosis is arrested for refusing to isolate for a year. Woman known only as ‘V.N.’ was placed in a specially-equipped detention room at the Pierce County Jail in Washington ...

WASHINGTON, USA — The Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department issued an advisory Wednesday to healthcare providers to test for tuberculosis (TB) in people who were incarcerated. This is after a ...

A Washington state woman who was diagnosed with tuberculosis has been taken into custody after months of refusing treatment or isolation, officials said on Thursday. The Tacoma woman, who is ...

The Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department in Washington has obtained multiple court orders requiring a Tacoma resident to get treatment for her active tuberculosis, officials told NBC News on Friday.

Washington State law requires health care providers to report all active cases of TB to a local health department. There are about 20 active cases in Pierce County each year, according to the ...

Authorities in Washington State are set to arrest a woman who has been avoiding tuberculosis treatment and isolation for more than a year. Judge Philip Sorensen on Thursday signed an arrest warrant… ...

A Washington state tuberculosis patient has been jailed after refusing to self-isolate or get treatment, the Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department said in a statement last week.