Current Asheville, North Carolina Population, Demographics and stats in 2016, 2015.
Robert Koch, a German physician and scientist, presented his discovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium that causes tuberculosis (TB), on the evening of March 24, 1882.
Tuberculosis (TB) is an airborne infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis and is a major cause of morbidity and mortality, particularly in developing countries [1â3]. In 2005, 8.8 million people developed active TB and 1.6 million died of the disease [4]. Most cases occur in Southeast Asia and Africa.