Everything Is TuberculosisEverything Is Tuberculosis

#1 New York Times bestseller & bull; #1 Washington Post bestseller & bull; #1 Indie Bestseller & bull; USA Today Bestseller John Green, award-winning author and passionate advocate for global healthcare reform, tells a deeply human story illuminating the fight against the world& rsquo; s deadliest infectious disease. AN ACCLAIMED BEST BOOK OF 2025: NPR, Scientific American , Science News , Booklist , BookPage , Chicago Sun-Times. Goodreads Readers& rsquo; Choice Nonfiction Winner. Tuberculosis has been entwined with hu& shy; 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& shy; 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& shy; ties that allow this curable, preventable infec& shy; tious disease to also be the deadliest, killing over a million people every year. In Everything Is Tuberculosis , John tells Henry& rsquo; s story, woven through with the scientific and social histories of how tuberculosis has shaped our world& mdash; and how our choices will shape the future of tuberculosis.