Just today, all across the world, nearly 4000 people lost their lives to Tuberculosis (TB) and close to 28 000 people have been newly infected. TB is one of the deadliest infectious killers, despite it being preventable and equally curable.
To highlight the plight of this slowly progressing worldwide epidemic, World TB Day is observed on 24 March, the anniversary of the day in 1882 when Dr. Robert Koch discovered the bacterium responsible for TB.
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