Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection (Unabridged)
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4.6 • 494 Ratings
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
#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.
AN ACCLAIMED BEST BOOK OF 2025: NPR, Scientific American, Science News, Booklist, BookPage, Chicago Sun-Times. Goodreads Readers’ Choice Nonfiction Winner.
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.
Customer Reviews
Very interesting
It’s a grim subject. But also a stunning confirmation of the patterns of fear, blame, and socially acceptable othering of things we do not understand, and the people we associate with them, that continue even now. It’s an advantages perspective to obtain; to see social patterns over time. Not just because it allows us to anticipate what may happen in our own lives, but if we are at all interested in changing our world for the better.
EVERYTHING
I have told so many people how many things relate back to tuberculosis
Great
It’s no surprise that John Green is a wonderful writer. This book is really smart, dynamic, and thoughtful. Read by the author himself is also a great touch that makes this audiobook very well worth it.