About the Book: Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our
Deadliest Infection
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Tuberculosis has been entwined with hu?manity 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 be?came fast friends with Henry,
a boy with spindly legs and a big, goofy smile. In the years since that first
visit to Lakka, Green