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  • 2025

Everything is tuberculosis

the history and persistence of our deadliest infection

John Green, (1977-)

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"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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Title Statement Everything is tuberculosis: the history and persistence of our deadliest infection / John Green.
Author Green, John, 1977-
Publication New York: Crash Course Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House,2025.
Extent of Item 198 pages
ISBN 9780525556572 (hardcover)
Other Number pr07924513
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Summary "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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By Topic Tuberculosis in children--Sierra Leone
Tuberculosis--History
Tuberculosis--Case studies--Patients
Tuberculosis--Treatment--History
Tuberculosis--Sierra Leone
Tuberculosis--Social aspects
By Name Reider, Henry--Health
By Genre Biographies
Personal narratives
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