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 in Ancient times. The organism causing tuberculosis-Mycobacterium tuberculosis existed 15,000 to 20,000 years ago. It has been found in relics from ancient Egypt, India, and China. Among Egyptian mummies spinal tuberculosis, known as Pottâs disease has been detected by archaeologists.