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 a bacterial illness caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium Tuberculosis and is primarily an illness of the respiratory system. The bacteria are spread â¦ by respiratory droplets inhaled from someone with the condition who coughed or sneezed. Each year about 1.6 million people die from this curable disease.