Image from Coce

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

By: Publisher: New York, New York : Crash Course Books, 2025Description: 198 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cmContent type:
  • cartographic image
  • still image
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780525556572
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 616.99/5 23/eng/20250203
LOC classification:
  • RC311 .G85 2025
Summary: "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 has become a vocal advocate for increased access to treatment and wider awareness of the healthcare inequi�ties that allow this curable, preventable infec�tious disease to also be the deadliest, killing over a million people every year. The author 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."-- From publisher description.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-198).

"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 has become a vocal advocate for increased access to treatment and wider awareness of the healthcare inequi�ties that allow this curable, preventable infec�tious disease to also be the deadliest, killing over a million people every year. The author 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."-- From publisher description.