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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. Tuberculosis has been entwined with hu-manity 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 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 health-care inequi-ties that allow this curable, preventable infec-tious 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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""Everything Is Tuberculosis isn't about an ancient disease. It's about what it means to be human, how we understand suffering, how we respond to it, and what happens when we look away."" -- ""Psychology Today"" ""An enlightening exploration...Highly recommended."" -- ""School Library Journal (starred review)"" ""Insightful and extremely well and clearly written, Everything Is Tuberculosis makes what might be inaccessible accessible."" -- ""Booklist (starred review)"" ""With a down-to-earth unpolished narration, Green presents his own account of visiting with afflicted patients and learning about the challenges they face, particularly in poorer countries."" -- ""AudioFile""

""An enlightening exploration...Highly recommended."" -- ""School Library Journal (starred review)"" ""Insightful and extremely well and clearly written, Everything Is Tuberculosis makes what might be inaccessible accessible."" -- ""Booklist (starred review)"" ""With a down-to-earth unpolished narration, Green presents his own account of visiting with afflicted patients and learning about the challenges they face, particularly in poorer countries."" -- ""AudioFile""

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John Green is the award-winning, bestselling author of numerous books, including ones that have won such awards as an Edgar Award, a Printz Medal, and a Printz Honor. He has twice been a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and was selected by Time magazine as one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World. With his brother, Hank, he has co-created many online video projects, including Vlogbrothers and the educa-tional channel Crash Course. He serves on the board of trustees for the global health non-profit Partners In Health and spoke at the United Nations High-Level Meeting on the Fight to End Tuberculosis. You can visit him online at johngreenbooks.com or join the TB Fighters working to end tubercu-losis at tbfighters.org John Green is the award-winning, bestselling author of numerous books, including ones that have won such awards as an Edgar Award, a Printz Medal, and a Printz Honor. He has twice been a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and was selected by Time magazine as one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World. With his brother, Hank, he has co-created many online video projects, including Vlogbrothers and the educa-tional channel Crash Course. He serves on the board of trustees for the global health non-profit Partners In Health and spoke at the United Nations High-Level Meeting on the Fight to End Tuberculosis. You can visit him online at johngreenbooks.com or join the TB Fighters working to end tubercu-losis at tbfighters.org

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