- Publisher:
- EBURY
- Year of publication:
- 2025
- Subject:
- Non fiction
- ISBN:
- 978-1-5299-6142-3
- Pages:
- 208
EVERYTHING IS TUBERCULOSIS
THE HISTORY AND PERSISTENCE OF OUR DEADLIEST INFECTION
JOHN GREEN
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.
