Everything is tuberculosis : the history and persistence of our deadliest infection /

Green, John, 1977-

Everything is tuberculosis : the history and persistence of our deadliest infection / John Green. - New York, N.Y. : Crash Course Books, 2025. - 198 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

School Library Journal starred, April 2025 Publishers Weekly, January 2025 Kirkus Starred, February 2025 Library Journal web only, February 2025

"In 2019, John Green met Henry, a young tuberculosis patient at Lakka Government Hospital in Sierra Leone while traveling with Partners in Health. John became fast friends with Henry . . . In the years since that first visit to Lakka, Green has become a vocal and dynamic advocate for increased access to treatment and wider awareness of the healthcare inequities . . . In [this book] 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"--Publisher.

Young Adult Follett Content Solutions.

9780525556572


Tuberculosis--History.
Tuberculosis--Treatment--History.
Medicine--History.

RC311 / .G74 2025

616.99/5