Everything Is Tuberculosis

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John Green, award-winning author and passionate advocate for global healthcare reform, tells a deeply human story illuminating the fight against the world’ s deadliest infectious disease.

“ The real magic of Green’ s writing is the deeply considerate, human touch that goes into every word. ” – The Associated Press

“ Told with the intelligence, wit, and tragedy that have become hallmarks of the author’ s work. . . . This is the story of us. ” – Slate

“ Earnest and empathetic. ” – The New York Times

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 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.

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.