Everything Is Tuberculosis

Name: Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
ISBN: 9780525556572

The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

John Green

2025·198 pages·Nonfiction

History & Politics Science & Mind

class and inequality class struggle colonialism dual timeline morality and ethics poignant

Former NYT Bestseller

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

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

“Earnest and empathetic.”
— The New York Times

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. Signed edition 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.

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