{"id":71477,"date":"2019-03-26T14:14:51","date_gmt":"2019-03-26T14:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=71477"},"modified":"2019-03-26T14:14:59","modified_gmt":"2019-03-26T14:14:59","slug":"world-tuberculosis-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/world-tuberculosis-day-2\/","title":{"rendered":"World Tuberculosis Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question: What was the theme of World Tuberculosis Day 2019?<br> (a) It\u2019s Time<br> (b) Eradicate TB<br> (c) TB free World by 2030<br> (d) Light up the world for TB<br> Answer: (a)<br> Related facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>World Tuberculosis Day is observed every year on 24th March. It is observed to commemorate the anniversary of Dr. Robert Koch\u2019s discovery of the Tuberculosis (TB) bacteria in 1882. The theme of World Tuberculosis Day this year is It\u2019s Time.<\/li><li>India has committed to end TB by 2025. India shares the highest burden of TB in the world.<\/li><li>Tuberculosis (TB) is a communicable disease caused by infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb). TB typically affects the lungs, but it can also affect other parts of the body, including the kidney, spine and brain.<\/li><li>Tuberculosis is the leading infectious cause of death worldwide. As per WHO report in 2017, 10 million people became ill with TB, and 1.6 million people died of TB disease including 230,000 children.<\/li><li>Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch was a German physician and microbiologist. For his research on tuberculosis, Koch received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1905. The Robert Koch Institute is named in his honor.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Link:<br><a href=\"http:\/\/pib.nic.in\/PressReleseDetail.aspx?PRID=1569297\">http:\/\/pib.nic.in\/PressReleseDetail.aspx?PRID=1569297<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.niaid.nih.gov\/diseases-conditions\/tuberculosis-tb\">https:\/\/www.niaid.nih.gov\/diseases-conditions\/tuberculosis-tb<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Robert_Koch\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Robert_Koch<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: What was the theme of World Tuberculosis Day 2019? (a) It\u2019s Time (b) Eradicate TB (c) TB free World by 2030 (d) Light up the world for TB Answer: (a) Related facts: World Tuberculosis Day is observed every year on 24th March. It is observed to commemorate the anniversary of Dr. Robert Koch\u2019s discovery [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":71478,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1141],"tags":[479],"class_list":["post-71477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ydw-snews","tag-year-day-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}