World TB Day – Monday, March 24, 2008
March 21, 2008
This coming Monday, March 24, is World TB Day.
Here is information from the World Health Organization (WHO):
World TB Day raises awareness about the global epidemic of tuberculosis (TB) and efforts to eliminate the disease. One-third of the world’s population is currently infected with TB. The Stop TB Partnership, a network of organizations and countries fighting TB, organizes the Day to highlight the scope of the disease and how to prevent and cure it.
The annual event on 24 March marks the day in 1882 when Dr Robert Koch detected the cause of tuberculosis, the TB bacillus. This was a first step towards diagnosing and curing tuberculosis. WHO is working to cut TB prevalence rates and deaths by half by 2015.
From the CDC: Trends in Tuberculosis — United States, 2007 (MMWR)
Entry Filed under: Mycobacteriology/TB, news. Tags: TB, tuberculosis, World TB Day.
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