By John Green
Hardcover edition
Publisher Penguin Random House Imprint Crash Course Books ISBN9780525556572
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
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Tuberculosis has been entwined with huÂmanity 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 beÂcame 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 inequiÂties that allow this curable, preventable infecÂtious disease to also be the deadliest, killing over a million people every year.
In verything 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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