Everything Is Tuberculosis - The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
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| Verlag | Random House UK |
| Auflage | 2025 |
| Seiten | 198 |
| Format | 16,1 x 24,2 x 2 cm |
| Gewicht | 386 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| EAN | 9781529961423 |
| Bestell-Nr | 52996142UA |
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'Earnest and empathetic.' - New York Times
Tuberculosis has been entwined with humanity 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 became 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 inequities that allow this curable, preventable infectious 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.
