9 LESSONS I LEARNED ABOUT EVERYTHING IS TUBERCULOSIS - How One Infection Shaped My Understanding of Health, History, and Resilience (Personal Reflection Book‪)‬

9 LESSONS I LEARNED ABOUT EVERYTHING IS TUBERCULOSIS - How One Infection Shaped My Understanding of Health, History, and Resilience (Personal Reflection Book)

It started, as these things often do, with a story I wasn’t supposed to hear. I was sitting in the back of a medical van in Freetown, Sierra Leone, eavesdropping on a conversation between a nurse and a teenage boy named Henry.

He was coughing between his sentences, a dry, persistent rattle that sounded more like a metronome than a symptom. The nurse leaned in, scribbled something in a worn notebook, and gave a half-smile. I remember it vividly because of what she didn’t say.

Henry had tuberculosis.

That word—tuberculosis—landed like a relic from the 19th century. Something from a Dickens novel, or maybe a museum placard next to a long-forgotten iron lung. It wasn’t supposed to exist here, in our post-antibiotic world, not in the way that polio or smallpox had quietly exited the stage.

And yet, here it was—alive, stubborn, and strangely invisible. Henry’s story became the gateway to an uncomfortable truth: tuberculosis, far from being a closed chapter of medical history, is still very much writing itself into our present.


Grab a copy of this book now!