Everything is Tuberulosis by John Green, 2025

This a passionate book about tuberculosis, which is listed as the oldest contagious disease. In the last 200 years, over a billion people have died from it; between one-fourth and one-third of all living humans have been infected with it. These staggering statistics and more haunt Green's excellent book, which began with a trip to Sierra Leone in 2019 and a visit to Lakka, a tuberculosis hospital where Green met Henry Reider, a 17-year-old infected with TB. Henry becomes for readers the face of TB as Green periodically charts his condition in these pages. When Green returned home from Sierra Leone, he became obsessed with TB, this important book is evidence of that. Green writes expertly of the illness’s history, causes (malnutrition, poverty, bad sanitation, etc.), and cure—and of Henry’s miraculous recovery. Insightful and extremely well and clearly written, Everything Is Tuberculosis makes what might be inaccessible accessible.
27 copies in library system including CD & large print
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