Recognizing our responsibility to protect the health of the community from risk of infectious diseases, a tracking, monitoring and prevention control program is used.

Consultation, investigation and control of communicable diseases involves daily data collection from selected sites in the county, investigation of all reported diseases for source of infection, and contacts are located and tested if necessary.

Medications for tuberculosis patients are administered with compliance monitored and education related to disease process/prevention given. 

Contacts of tuberculosis patients are screened for the disease at no charge.

Others desiring to have a TB skin test may schedule a screening. The charge is $2 and the individual tested must return to the health department to have the testing site checked 2 days following the test.