World TB Day is a date celebrated annually on March 24 at the initiative of the World Health Organization (WHO), which in 1993 declared tuberculosis a global problem.
World Tuberculosis (TB) Day aims to raise awareness of the global TB epidemic and efforts to eliminate the disease.
In order to raise awareness of the devastating effects of TB on human health and inform about the consequences of TB, efforts to combat the global epidemic of this disease must be intensified. It was on this day in 1882 that the German microbiologist Robert Koch announced his discovery of the causative agent of tuberculosis. This discovery allowed significant progress in the field of diagnosis, treatment and prevention of this disease.
Tuberculosis is an infectious disease caused by bacteria that most commonly affects the lungs, but can also affect other organs.Every year, about 10 million people in the world fall ill with tuberculosis, about 2 million people die from this disease.
Tuberculosis remains one of the most deadly infections in the world. More than 4,100 people die from tuberculosis every day. About 28,000 people develop this preventable and treatable disease.
The infection is transmitted mainly by airborne or airborne dust – when coughing, sneezing, talking, sick people release tuberculosis bacteria into the air, which are suspended in the air for a long time in the form of an aerosol.
According to the WHO (World Health Organization), about a third of the inhabitants of our planet are infected with mycobacterium tuberculosis.
Shirin Hanmamedova,
1st year student of the faculty international journalism Institute of International Relations Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan
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