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.
I think it is the real destination of the humanity!
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Albert George Hill (24 March 1889 – 8 January 1969) was a British athlete, winner of two Olympic gold medals at the 1920 Summer Olympics.
ReplyDeleteBorn in Tooting, London, Hill started out as a long distance runner, winning the British AAA championships over 4 miles in 1910. Hill served with the Royal Flying Corps in France during World War I.