World Tuberculosis Day

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World Tuberculosis Day

***** Location: Worldwide
***** Season: Spring
***** Category: Humanity

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Explanation





World Tuberculosis Day, falling on March 24 each year, is designed to build public awareness about the global epidemic of tuberculosis and efforts to eliminate the disease. Today tuberculosis causes the deaths of about 1.7 million people each year, mostly in the Third World.

March 24 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 toward diagnosing and curing tuberculosis.

Theme for 2012

Stop TB in my lifetime
Call for a world free of TB.

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Tuberculosis -
Why This Ancient Disease Remains a Global Health Threat
source : /www.stoptb.org


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HAIKU

tuberculosis day --
I go for diagnosis
to a hospital

John Maina, Kenya
March 2012

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