Everything Is Tuberculosis
The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
by John Green
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John Green, award-winning author and passionate advocate for global healthcare reform, tells a deeply human story illuminating the fight against the world’s deadliest infectious disease.
“The real magic of Green’s writing is the deeply considerate, human touch that goes into every word.” –The Associated Press
“This highly readable call to action could not be more timely.” –Kirkus, starred review
“Earnest and empathetic.” –The New York Times
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 infectious 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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- ISBN: 9781101592410
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- ISBN: 9781101592410
- File size: 4211 KB
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- English
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February 7, 2025
Tuberculosis (TB) killed more than one million people in 2023 and over a billion in the last 200 years. TB is an airborne infection that spreads in crowded, poorly ventilated spaces. Most who are infected remain asymptomatic, but people with impaired immune systems, malnutrition, and chronic diseases such as diabetes risk active disease. Although TB is now preventable and curable, much of society chooses to ignore it. Bestselling and award-winning YA novelist and essayist Green (The Fault in Our Stars; The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet) became interested in TB while visiting Laka Hospital in Sierra Leone, where he befriended a young patient named Henry. His new book looks at the history, science, and sociology of TB. It jumps from scientific explanations of German microbiologist Robert Koch's work to analysis of the inequities in healthcare and economics that make even inexpensive drugs and basic care unavailable in many parts of the world. VERDICT An interesting but scattered view of one of the world's major curable diseases. Recommended for public and consumer health library collections.--Barbara M. Bibel
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