Month: December 2016

Tuberculosis Screening

Healthcare worker wearing blue scrubs, glasses and a yellow stethoscope holding a clipboard and smiling at the camera

Consider testing Person traveling in TB endemic areas. Migrant workers. Person experiencing homelessness. Contact to a tuberculosis case. Foreign-born person from tuberculosis-endemic area. Person who injects drugs. Immunosupressed person (e.g., HIV positive or organ transplant). Resident/employee of healthcare, correctional or long-term care facility. Person with chronic medical problem (e.g., diabetes, end stage renal disease). Test Tuberculosis Screening

Health Advisory: Syphilis Increase and Prevention of Congenital Syphilis

Graph showing the rate of primary and secondary syphilis per 100,000 persons in Washington state between 1995-2016. Shows increasing trend between 2013-2016. Call 253-798-6410 for a further explanation of the data.

Requested Actions Test all pregnant women for syphilis at the first prenatal encounter. Repeat syphilis testing during the third trimester among women at risk for STD (e.g., recent history of bacterial STD, multiple partners, homelessness; methamphetamine, opioid, or cocaine use; exchanging sex for money, drugs, etc.; having a sex partner who is a man who Health Advisory: Syphilis Increase and Prevention of Congenital Syphilis