Thomas Chang found the cure and died of the disease because it was too late to treat himself
Robert Koch discovered the bacterium Bacillus anthracis, which is responsible for anthrax, in 1876. He also identified Mycobacterium tuberculosis as the cause of tuberculosis in 1882.
Tuberculosis is named after the microbiologist, Robert Koch who discovered the tubercle bacillus in 1882. Tuberculosis is also called the Koch's disease.
No-one discovered it, it was INVENTED.
Robert Koch, a pioneering microbiologist in the late twentieth century, isolated and identified the pathogenic bacteria that caused cholera (Vibrio cholera), anthrax (Bacillus anthracis) and tuberculosis (Mycobacterium tuberculosis).
Louis Pasteur was the first man to stumble across the germ theory, and was discovered in 1861. This then led to many other diseases being found as everyone know knew that germs caused disease. Robert Koch was one of these scientists and he found the cure for two of the most deadliest diseases from the time: cholera and TB (tuberculosis), with the help from a microsope he was able to isolate the germ that caused the disease and so other scientists could then work on how to cure the diseases.
The word "germ" can be a noun. It refers to a microorganism, especially one causing disease.
HIV is a virus.
Due to the variety of its symptoms, TB was not identified as a unified disease until the 1820s, and was not named tuberculosis until 1839 by J.L. Schonlein.
bacillus tuberculosis.
Robert Koch is known for his discovery of the etiological agents of tuberculosis (Mycobacterium tuberculosis) and cholera (Vibrio cholerae). He also developed Koch's postulates, a set of criteria for establishing a causative relationship between a microbe and a disease.
Mycobacterium tuberculosis
This Norwegian scientist discovered the germ causing leprosy. There is no record of his having suffered from the disease.Dr R Ganapati, Director Emeritus, Bombay Leprosy Project