Everything Is Tuberculosis The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

And then more recently, Green turned his attention to global health with this year's nonfiction bestseller Everything is Tuberculosis.

or in your most recent book, Everything is Tuberculosis, writing about global-scale illness. Again, they both connect, for me, to the idea of suffering.

Support for Today Explained comes from the new book Everything is Tuberculosis by number one bestselling author John Green. In the book, Green charts how the world's deadliest infectious disease has shaped the course of human history.

Everything is Tuberculosis highlights systemic failures within the global health care systems that, according to the author, have allowed tuberculosis to persist as the world's deadliest infection, killing one and a quarter million people every year. Huh. Despite being curable since the 1950s.

In Everything is Tuberculosis, John Green tells the story of a young TB patient in Sierra Leone, and he weaves in the scientific and social histories of how it has shaped our world and how our choices will shape tuberculosis's future.

John Green, you might know, is the award-winning number one bestselling author of books including Looking for Alaska, The Fault in Our Stars, Turtles All the Way Down, and The Anthropocene Reviewed.

Support for Today Explained comes from the new book, Everything is Tuberculosis, by number one bestselling author John Green.

In the book, Green charts how the world's deadliest infectious disease has shaped the course of human history.

Everything is Tuberculosis highlights systemic failures within the global health care systems that, according to the author, have allowed tuberculosis to persist as the world's deadliest infection, killing one and a quarter million people every year, despite being curable since the 1950s.

In Everything is Tuberculosis, John Green tells the story of a young TB patient in Sierra Leone, and he weaves in the scientific and social histories of how it has shaped our world and how our choices will shape tuberculosis's future.

His latest book is a non-fiction deep dive into one of the oldest and deadliest threats to humankind.

John's book is called Everything is Tuberculosis, and in it he describes how foreign policy and corporate greed make TB so hard to eliminate.

I really love this book. It is both heartbreaking and triumphant.

We're back with John Green talking about his new book, Everything is Tuberculosis, the History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection.

I love the book so much.

This message comes from Penguin Random House ... Everything is Tuberculosis. Best-selling author John Green tells the story of a young TB patient in Sierra Leone and systems of injustice fueling the world's deadliest infectious disease.

Author and YouTuber John Green on his book, Everything is Tuberculosis, the history and persistence of our deadliest infection.

Author and YouTuber John Green on his book, Everything is Tuberculosis, The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection. I think of the story of human health as like this long staircase that we're walking up. You know, you start out with Hippocrates telling people, like, don't even bother treating this. It's totally impossible. And then eventually in 1882, Robert Koch figures out it's infectious.

Author and YouTuber John Green on his book Everything is Tuberculosis, the history and persistence of our deadliest infection.

I got to talk to the author John Green about that in his new fantastic book, Everything is Tuberculosis.