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Everything is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

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Tuberculosis has been entwined with humanity for millennia. Once romanticized as a malady of poets, today tuberculosis is seen as a disease of poverty that walks the trails of injustice and inequity we blazed for it.

In 2019, author John Green met Henry Reider, a young tuberculosis patient at Lakka Government Hospital in Sierra Leone. John became fast friends with Henry, a boy with spindly legs and a big, goofy smile. In the years since that first visit to Lakka, Green has become a vocal advocate for increased access to treatment and wider awareness of the healthcare inequities that allow this curable, preventable infections disease to also be the deadliest, killing over a million people every year.

In Everything is Tuberculosis, John tells Henry's story, woven through with the scientific and social histories of how tuberculosis has shaped our world - and how our choices will shape the future of tuberculosis.

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616.99 GRE e

Publisher

New York : Penguin Random House., 2025

Collation

244 p.; ilus.; 24 cm

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

979-8-217-16842-2

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616.99

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Subject(s)

tuberculosis

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#1 Bestselling Author of The Anthropocena Reviewed

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Cet.1, 2025

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