Book: Everything is TB

 Book: Everything is TB

Author: John Green

Pages: 206

This is my 90th read for the year

What Amazon Says:

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 injustics 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 inequitites that allow this curable, preventable infectious disease to also be the deadlist, killing over a million people a year.  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.

This was a good book.  I learned a lot about the history of TB and how it is still such a prevalent threat in many parts of the world.  I liked how Green continued the story of one kid - Henry - throughout the facts about TB.  It is an easy read and I got through it in an evening.  I was a little surprised he didn't mention Gates and his work with TB, but otherwise a solid read.  I also enjoyed that he included Henry's social media handles so I could look him up.

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