Commemorating World TB Day 2020: “IT’S TIME” — It’s time to End the Global TB Epidemic

World TB Day falls on March 24th each year, and it commemorates the day in 1882 when Dr Robert Koch announced that he had discovered the microbial cause of tuberculosis, Mycobacterium tuberculosis (WHO, 2020aWHO World tuberculosis day.2020https://www.who.int/news-room/events/detail/2020/03/24/default-calendar/world-tuberculosis-day-2020Google Scholar, WHO, 2020bWHO End TB strategy. https://www.who.int/tb/post2015_strategy/en/. [Accessed 3 February 2020].Google Scholar, WHO, 2020cWHO Europe. Drug resistant strains could become the dominant form of TB in Europe: it’s time to end TB. http://www.euro.who.int/en/health-topics/communicable-diseases/tuberculosis/news/news/2019/3/drug-resistant-strains-could-become-the-dominant-form-of-tb-in-europe-its-time-to-end-tb.Google Scholar). At the time of Professor Koch’s announcement in Berlin, TB was an endemic in Europe and the Americas, and caused the death of one in every seven people (Wallstedt and Maeurer, 2015Wallstedt H. Maeurer M. The history of tuberculosis management in Sweden.Int J Infect Dis. 2015; 32: 179-182Abstract Full…