| Each year on March 24, World TB Day is recognized globally to build public awareness around TB and recommit to ending the world’s deadliest infectious disease, which claims about 1.25 million lives annually. The date commemorates the 1882 discovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the germ that causes TB, which at the time, killed 1 in 7 people in the United States and Europe. |
If you want to read more, consider the best-seller “Everything is Tuberculosis” by John Green