John Green

Everything Is Tuberculosis

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John Green, the #1 bestselling author of The Anthropocene Reviewed and a passionate advocate for global healthcare reform, tells a deeply human story illuminating the fight against the world’s deadliest infectious disease.

“This highly readable call to action could not be more timely.” –Kirkus, starred review
“Mem­orably probes the intersections of medicine and human emotion.” –
Bookpage, starred review
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.
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…
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  • Eugeniahas quoted3 months ago
    This is the gut-wrenching, heartrending injustice of living with tuberculosis in the twenty-first century: You live if you’re rich. And if you’re not, then you hope to get lucky.
  • Eugeniahas quoted3 months ago
    We cannot address TB only with vaccines and medications. We cannot address it only with comprehensive STP programs. We must also address the root cause of tuberculosis, which is injustice. In a world where everyone can eat, and access healthcare, and be treated humanely, tuberculosis has no chance. Ultimately, we are the cause.

    We must also be the cure.
  • Eugeniahas quoted3 months ago
    And so we have entered a strange era of human history: A preventable, curable infectious disease remains our deadliest. That’s the world we are currently choosing.

    But we can choose a different world. In fact, we will choose a different world. The world will be different a generation from now. The question is whether we will look back in gratitude at the virtuous cycles, or in horror at the vicious ones
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