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Fight TB: Know the signs and symptoms

Fact Sheet
Fight TB: Know the signs and symptoms

Since January of 2016, we have seen an increase of multidrug-resistance tuberculosis (MDR TB) in Minnesota. The severe increase in these rates is due to an MDR TB outbreak within the Hmong community of the east metro. What is very concerning about this outbreak is that it is not regular TB, but MDR TB. This means some of the typical medicines used to treat TB do not work, and we need to use stronger medications over a long period of time to get rid of the disease.

Author:

Minnesota Department of Health

Audiences:

Health Professionals

Topic:

TB Prevention

Related Materials

Signs and Symptoms of TB for Shelters

This material, available in English and Spanish, provides information for shelter guests about TB. The material can be used as a fact sheet or as a poster.

Flipbook

Tawm Tsam Kab Mob Ntsws TB: Paub Txog Cov Cim Qhia thiab Cov Mob Tshwm Sim [Fight TB: Know the signs and symptoms]

This fact sheet provides information on signs and symptoms of multi-drug resistant TB (MDR TB), and action steps to be taken if a person (or someone they know) may have been exposed to TB. The material was developed to educate patients and community members at increased risk of MDR TB due to an outbreak in the East Metro-Minnesota region. 

Fact Sheet

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In this flash film, Winstone Zulu, a TB/HIV advocate from Zambia, says that TB is the leading killer of AIDS patients living in Africa. From his own experience of living with both AIDS and TB, and having been cured of TB himself, he states that there is a desperate need for TB patients to be treated with TB drugs, as TB can be cured. He emphasizes that fighting AIDS in Africa means fighting TB. A 60-second PSA accompanies this flash film.

Webpage

Global resources for the prevention,
management, and elimination of TB.