Health and Social Services
TB: What happens to someone with TB disease (active TB)?
If you have TB disease, you need special medication to kill the TB germ that is active in your body.
Without this medication, a person with TB disease can die.
Most people with TB disease are hospitalized until the person is not infectious to others.
In the hospital they are kept in a special isolation room to protect other patients and health-care workers from becoming infected with TB. They are asked to wear a mask if they have to leave this room. Health-care workers wear masks when caring for them.
Contact YCDC TB Nurses
If you require additional information about TB, please contact Yukon Communicable Disease and ask to be redirected to one of the Tb Nurses.
Phone: 667-8323 or 1-800-661-0408, extension 8323.
