March 24th every year is tuberculosis publicity day.
March 24th, 2020 is the 25th World Tuberculosis Day. This year, China's publicity theme is: Join hands to fight the epidemic and tuberculosis, and protect healthy breathing. This theme implies that at the moment when important progress has been made in the prevention and control of COVID-19 epidemic in China, we should also pay attention to another chronic respiratory infectious disease-tuberculosis, which is also the main infectious disease that seriously endangers people's health at present, and the prevention and control work is waiting for no one!
Introduction to the origin of publicity day:
The origin of World Tuberculosis Day is a milestone in the long history of mankind's fight against tuberculosis. On March 24th, 1882, the famous German scientist robert koch announced in Berlin that the chief culprit of tuberculosis was Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
This great discovery provides an important scientific basis for the research and control of tuberculosis and brings hope for the diagnosis and treatment of the disease. To commemorate this special contribution, starting from 1996, the World Health Organization has designated March 24th every year as World Tuberculosis Day.
Refer to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Tuberculosis