Tuberculosis - Sedgwick County, Kansas Health Department

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Tuberculosis (TB)

Tuberculosis (TB) is a disease that is spread through the air from person to person. TB normally affects the lungs, but can also affect the brain, kidneys and the spine.

For more information about Tuberculosis, please click on the following links:

Sedgwick County Health Department TB Fact Sheet
VIDEO - What you Should Know about TB
Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Guidelines for TB Infection Control in Health Care Settings
Tobacco and TB: Resource for Quitting
Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention Fact Sheets

For more information, visit the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) TB Web site.

What to do if you think you have TB

The general symptoms of TB disease include feelings of sickness or weakness, weight loss, fever, and night sweats. The symptoms of TB disease of the lungs also include coughing (with or without blood) and chest pain. Symptoms of TB disease in other parts of the body depend on the area affected.

If you are experiencing any of the symptoms of Tuberculosis or have a recent positive TB skin test, contact your primary care physician. If you do not have a primary care physician, please contact the Tuberculosis Control Program. Your primary care physician or the Health Department can perform a QuantiFeron test to get more accurate results. To learn about this TB test, click here.

Tuberculosis Control Program Information

Tuberculosis Control Program Clinic

Sedgwick County Health Department
1900 E. 9th St.
Wichita, KS 67214
316-660-7450

Follow the signs to the West side of the building.

Office hours are:
Monday-Wednesday 8 am – 12 pm, 1 pm – 5 pm
Thursday 1 pm -5 pm
The clinic is closed on Thursday morning and Friday.

Chest x-rays are scheduled for Monday through Thursday afternoons.

Unless you have been contacted by the TB Control Program clinic to receive testing, TB Skin Testing for immigration, employment, etc., are available by appointment at

Clinical Services
Sedgwick County Health Department
2716 W. Central
Wichita, KS 67203
316-660-7364

Reporting TB

Latent TB Infection and Tuberculosis disease reports may be submitted using any of the following methods:

Health Care Providers may contact the Sedgwick County Health Department Tuberculosis Control Program clinic 8 am - 5 pm Monday-Friday by calling the clinic at 316-660-7450. You can also send an e-mail to the clinic at tbdiseasereport@sedgwick.gov.
Print and complete the Latent Tuberculosis Infection and Disease Reporting Form (.pdf) and fax it to the TB Clinic at 316-267-2583.
Printed reports may also be mailed to:
- Tuberculosis Control Program
  Sedgwick County Health Department
  1900 E. 9th St.
  Wichita, KS 67214
COMING SOON: TB can be reported electronically using an online form. No information is transmitted via e-mail when using the online submission form and information transmitted is encrypted. Information submitted is not stored on the host server.

If you have any questions or concerns regarding TB reporting please call the clinic at 316-660-7450.

Pursuant to Kansas statutes (K.S.A. 65-118, 65-128, 65-6001 through 65-6007, K.A.R. 28-1-2, 28-1-4, and 28-1-18 Changes effective as of 4/28/06) suspect or confirmed cases of active TB disease must be reported to KDHE within four hours toll free at 1-877-427-7317. Isolates must be sent to:

Division of Health and Environmental Laboratories
Forbes Field, Building #740
Topeka, KS 66620-0001
Phone: (785) 296-1636

TB Statistics and Information

2009 TB Statistics, Case Rates, and Risk Information

	Sedgwick County	Kansas
Male	8	36
Female	2	28
American Indian/Alaska Native	0	0
Asian/Pacific Islander	4	24
Black	2	12
White	4	28
Hispanic (all races)	4	14
Children under 20	2	10
Ages 15-24	3*	15
Ages 25-44	3	20
Ages 45-64	2	18
Ages 65+	2	8
Co-infection with HIV	0	1
Total	10	64

*For information on prior years, please consult the 2009 and 2008 Data Books at the link in the bar on the right side of this page under “Statistics.”

	Sedgwick County		Kansas		US
Year	# Cases	Rate	# Cases	Rate	# Cases	Rate
1999	30	6.6	69	2.3	17,501	6.3
2000	26	6	77	2.6	16,310	5.8
2001	33	7.1	80	3	15,945	5.6
2002	28	6	89	3.3	15,056	5.2
2003	28	6	75	2.8	14,836	5.1
2004	14	3	62	2.3	14,500	5
2005	20	4.3	60	2.2	14,067	4.8
2006	26	5.6	82	3	13,727	4.6
2007	17	3.7	59	2.1	13,288	4.4
2008	16	3.5	57	2	12,904	4.2
2009	10	2.2	64	2.3

**The above case rates for 2009 mean Sedgwick County and the state of Kansas are low-incidence or low-risk regions for TB.

Free TB Skin Test (Mantoux) Workshops for Medical Providers

If you or your staff plant and read TB Skin Tests, this workshop may be for you! Click here for more information and an RSVP form to download and fax back. For more information, call 316-660-7450.

Tobacco and TB: Resource for Quitting

Think smoking or even second-hand smoke has nothing to do with TB? Think again! Up to 20% of all TB deaths could be avoided if patients were not smokers. Recent studies have found links between smoking and many aspects of tuberculosis:

Smoking is associated with death from tuberculosis.
Passive smoking is associated with developing tuberculosis disease.
Treatment for TB is less effective for people who continue to smoke or continue to be exposed to secondhand smoke.
Restarting smoking after treatment poses the risk of re-infection and disease. It is much more difficult and takes much longer to treat this kind of TB.

Need Help Quitting? Try the Kansas Tobacco Quitline - FREE! The Kansas Tobacco Quitline provides you toll-free access to trained tobacco cessation counselors, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, at no charge to you. Call 1-800-QUIT-NOW (784-8669).

For more information on tobacco and your health, please visit the Sedgwick County Health Department Tobacco Web site.