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

John Green

Start date: August 1, 2025

Finish date: August 31, 2025

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Jul 07, 2025 Ashley Basile rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: ttxi-2025, coconut-tree-library, mentally-stimulated

I found this book exceptionally interesting... and utterly exasperating. It's frustrating (and frankly enraging) to learn that tuberculosis, a treatable disease, is still the world's deadliest infectious killer.

The subject matter is presented through science, statistics, and history, yes, but most powerfully through a personal story told with clarity and compassion. It is hard to look away when you're seeing one boy clearly, instead of obscured by data and numbers.

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May 30, 2025 Kylara Jensen rated it it was amazing

Shelves: things-that-matter, nf-science-etc, nf-history

This is such a good book!

When most people think of tuberculosis, they think of the old time disease that results in blood in your hankerchief.

But millions of people still die every year from this completely curable disease.

This is a social history of tuberculosis, and the related injustice, racism and classism in how we as a people address this disease.

In many ways it is also a book about Henry, a young man from Sierra Leone who was diagnosed with tb and spent years trying to fight for a cure.

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