Everything Is Tuberculosis The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

<b>Instant #1 <i>New York Times </i>bestseller! • #1 <i>Washington Post </i>bestseller! • #1 Indie Bestseller! • <i>USA Today </i>Bestseller!<br><br>John Green, acclaimed author and passionate advocate for global healthcare reform, tells a deeply human story illuminating the fight against the world’s deadliest infectious disease. <i>Signed edition</i></b><br><br><i>“The real magic of Green’s writing is the deeply considerate, human touch that goes into every word.” –</i>The Associated Press<i><br></i><br><i>″Told with the intelligence, wit, and tragedy that have become hallmarks of the author’s work.... This is the story of us.” –Slate</i><br><br><i>“Earnest and empathetic.” </i>–The New York Times<br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>In <i>Everything Is Tuberculosis</i>, 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.