A Washington State Department of Health release from Thursday shared that state and local health officials are on "heightened alert" due to the current rise in TB cases. While TB cases in ...

In fact, according to a Washington State Department of Health announcement on April 28, the state has been having its largest TB outbreak in the last 20 years. Last year’s TB total represented a ...

At least 17 cases in Washington and throughout correctional facilities in the state are connected. Coughs and sneezes from a person infected with TB can spread the disease through the air, similar ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

The two cases of multidrug-resistant TB in Washington are currently being treated and are doing well, Field said. But treatment is expensive — the total cost per patient nearly $100,000, she said.

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.

OLYMPIA, Wash. — The Washington State Department of Health (DOH) is on heightened alert not just for COVID-19 but also for tuberculosis as cases rise in the state as well as globally.