About TB
TB is an airborne disease that usually attacks the lungs, although it can affect any part of the body. Anyone can get TB but it is most likely to affect people whose immune systems are already weakened. Mycobacterium tuberculosis – the bacterium that causes TB – was discovered in 1882 but has probably existed for as long as mankind. In the mid-Nineteenth Century, TB brought about the death of almost one in every seven people in Britain and was considered the single biggest killer of Europeans and North Americans. In the Twenty-first Century, TB still remains a leading cause of death worldwide.
This website is intended as a resource for Parliamentarians and other parties interested in TB. This page will be regularly updated with factsheets and breifing papers and a variety of issues relating to TB. To recommend further documents for this page please contact the APPG Secretariat
This page is currently being updated with documents that have been generously provided by a range of organisations: