Everything Is Tuberculosis
The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
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Narrated by:
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John Green
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John Green
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Brought to you by Penguin.
Tuberculosis has been entwined with humanity for millennia. Once romanticized as a malady of poets, today tuberculosis is a disease of poverty that walks the trails of injustice and inequity we blazed for it.
In 2019, John Green met Henry, a young tuberculosis patient at Lakka Government Hospital in Sierra Leone while traveling with Partners in Health. 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 and dynamic advocate for increased access to treatment and wider awareness of the healthcare inequities that allow this curable, treatable infectious disease to also be the deadliest, killing 1.5 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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- Elizabeth
- 11-04-2025
Think you know about TB? Think again!
A fascinating, thoroughly researched and beautifully presented study of TB. Like many people, I give it little thought from my comfortable life in a society where health care is taken for granted. My eyes are open and I am recruited to the cause.
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- Amazon Customer
- 24-03-2025
Nailed it
Compelling. Well read and well written. This was worth waiting for. Bravo John, and bravo Henry Rider.
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- Michael Malone
- 22-03-2025
Love, empathy and hope
It's a beautiful narrative conveying harrowing information, lovingly conveyed in a way that it's clear the author is capable of listening and not trying to center his voice, but those who were there. I loved this book - ate it up in less than a day and non-fictions books read well by their author are particularly special. 5 stars.
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- Kelly
- 01-04-2025
super interesting (and frustrating)
really well narrated and written. I did not think I would find TB as interesting and frustrating as I did. many thanks to John for making the story so engaging.
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