Everything is tuberculosis : the history and persistence of our deadliest infection / John Green.

Green, John, 1977-, author

London : Ebury Press, 2025.

208 pages ; 24 cm

Tuberculosis has been entwined with humanity for millennia. Once romanticized as a malady of poets, today tuberculosis is a disease of poverty that walks the trails of injustice and inequity we blazed for it. In 2019, John Green met Henry, a young tuberculosis patient at Lakka Government Hospital in Sierra Leone while travelling with Partners in Health. 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 and dynamic advocate for increased access to treatment and wider awareness of the healthcare inequities that allow this curable, treatable infectious disease to also be the deadliest, killing 1.5 million people every year. John tells Henry's story, woven through with the scientific and social histories of how TB has shaped our world and how our choices will shape the future of the disease.

9781529961423 (hbk)

362.196995009
362.1969

RA644.T7

362.196995009

English

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