ISLAMABAD: World Tuberculosis (TB) Day was observed in Pakistan to raise awareness about the global epidemic and making efforts to eliminate the disease.
To mark the day various activities were arranged by medical and educational institutions besides governmental and non-government organizations, a private news channel reported.
World TB Day has been designed to build public awareness that tuberculosis remains an epidemic in much of the world causing the deaths of several million people each year mostly in developing countries.
The Day is commemorated when in 1882 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 towards diagnosing and curing TB.
According to medical experts one-third of the world's population is currently infected with TB while this number in Pakistan is 4,20,000, according to World Health Organization (WHO).
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