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.
1 Robert Koch isolated the tubercle bacillus in 1882 and established TB as an infectious disease. 2  In the 19th century, patients were isolated in sanatoria and given treatments such as injecting air into the chest cavity.