The date, March 24th, marks the day in 1882 when Dr. Robert Koch announced his discovery of the bacteria that causes tuberculosis (TB). His research opened the way toward diagnosing and curing this disease. Tuberculosis is the world's leading infectious disease killer, causing more deaths each year than malaria or AIDS. It kills 3 people every minute. However, tuberculosis is preventable and curable. Although the bacteria that causes TB is becoming more and more drug resistant, there is a vaccine against TB.
To learn more and spread awareness of this preventable killer, please see:
- https://www.cdc.gov/world-tb-day/?CDC_AAref_Val=https://www.cdc.gov/tb/worldtbday/default.htm
- https://www.who.int/campaigns/world-tb-day
- https://www.stoptb.org/advocate-to-endtb/world-tb-day
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