
The pandemic that just keeps on killing (and it’s not the coronavirus…)
Today (March 24th, 2022) marks the day in 1882 when Dr Robert Koch announced that he'd discovered the bacterium that causes TB. It was a milestone event that opened the way towards diagnosing and curing this disease. If only this had actually happened as he’d hoped it would. What’s happening with TB today? TB has been tragically but correctly described as ‘the everlasting pandemic in plain sight’, and the WHO's press release for this World TB Day states that still “every day,