World TB Day, falling on March 24th each year, is
designed to build public awareness that tuberculosis today remains an
epidemic in much of the world, causing the deaths of nearly
one-and-a-half million people each year, mostly in developing countries.
It commemorates the day in 1882 when Dr Robert Koch astounded the
scientific community by announcing that he had discovered the cause of
tuberculosis, the TB bacillus. At the time of Koch's announcement in
Berlin, TB was raging through Europe and the Americas, causing the death
of one out of every seven people. Koch's discovery opened the way
towards diagnosing and curing TB.
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