USAID Issues Statement on World Tuberculosis Day
March 22, 2019
March 22, 2019
WASHINGTON, March 22 -- The U.S. Agency for International Development issued the following statement by Administrator Mark Green on World Tuberculosis Day:
"World TB Day, on March 24, commemorates the date in 1882 when Dr. Robert Koch discovered Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
"TB is the world's most-lethal infectious disease and ninth leading killer; it infected an estimated 10 million people in 2017 and caused almost two million deaths. An estimated 560,000 peop . . .
"World TB Day, on March 24, commemorates the date in 1882 when Dr. Robert Koch discovered Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
"TB is the world's most-lethal infectious disease and ninth leading killer; it infected an estimated 10 million people in 2017 and caused almost two million deaths. An estimated 560,000 peop . . .