by Carla Conrad | Mar 24, 2016 | Tuberculosis
World Tuberculosis (TB) Day on March 24, 2016, marks the 134-year anniversary of Dr. Robert Koch’s unprecedented discovery in 1882 of the TB bacillus—the cause of tuberculosis. Once considered to be hereditary or due to some mysterious environmental forces,...
by Carla Conrad | Mar 24, 2014 | Tuberculosis
World TB Day 2014 is on March 24, and this annual event commemorates the date in 1882 when Dr. Robert Koch announced his discovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacillus that causes TB.Why then, since the number of reported tuberculosis cases in the United States...
