Tagged: Robert Koch

My top 10 TB facts for World TB day - Infectious Thoughts

Siouxsie Wiles • Mar 24, 2015 •

• ESR,
• Mycobacterium tuberculosis,
• Robert Koch,
• TB,
• tuberculosis,
• WHO,
• World TB Day

For World TB day, here are my top 10 TB facts. Read More

Monday Micro – World TB Day - Infectious Thoughts

Siouxsie Wiles • Mar 25, 2013 •

• Anton Villemin,
• Auckland University,
• consumption,
• fireflies,
• Gates Foundation,
• Global Fund,
• Luke Harris,
• Mycobacterium tuberculosis,
• Robert Koch,
• TB,
• tuberculosis,
• World TB Day

Yesterday, the 24th of March, was World TB Day which aims to build awareness for tuberculosis, a lung disease which kills about 2 million people around the world each year. That’s 3 people a minute. Why the 24th March? This was the day, in 1882, that Dr Robert Koch* announced he had discovered the bacterium that causes TB, … Read More