Agency May Get Funds to Fight Tuberculosis
Health officials today will ask the Board of Supervisors to approve Ventura County’s portion of a $12-million statewide tuberculosis-prevention package.
If the plan is approved, the Health Care Agency would receive $53,000 to spend on screening, tracking and treating people with tuberculosis, county Health Officer Larry Dodds said.
“Our biggest problem is follow-up therapy,” Dodds said. “This would help us get the personnel to make sure people take their medicine.”
In order to be cured, people with tuberculosis must follow a strict medication regimen for six months, Dodds said. Tuberculosis cases have been declining in the county since 1990, he said. There were 60 cases that year, 52 in 1991 and 50 in 1992.
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