Today is World TB Day. It commemorates March 24, 1882, the day Robert Koch presented his discovery of Mycobacterium tuberculsosis as the cause of Tuberculosis. Koch received the Nobel Prize for this discovering in 1905.
TB is very prevalent worldwide and almost 3 million persons a year die from the disease (when including those dually infected with HIV). TB has been treatable with drugs up until a drug resistant M. tuberculosis strain appeared some years ago. Now the health care system has to catch up in combating the new TB strain.
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