Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest InfectionInstant #1 New York Times bestseller! • #1 Washington Post bestseller! • #1 Indie Bestseller! • USA Today Bestseller! 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 “Told with the intelligence, wit, and tragedy that have become hallmarks of the author’s work.... This is the story of us.” –Slate “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. |
Contents
Section 1 | 1 |
Section 2 | 9 |
Section 3 | 25 |
Section 4 | 50 |
Section 5 | 64 |
Section 6 | 91 |
Section 7 | 99 |
Section 8 | 109 |
Section 14 | 174 |
Section 15 | 181 |
Section 16 | 187 |
Section 17 | 192 |
Section 18 | 196 |
Section 19 | 200 |
Section 20 | 204 |
Section 21 | 218 |
Section 9 | 119 |
Section 10 | 134 |
Section 11 | 143 |
Section 12 | 155 |
Section 13 | 165 |
Section 22 | 225 |
Section 23 | 231 |
Section 24 | 235 |
Section 25 | 241 |
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