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Everything Is Tuberculosis

by John Green

  • Crash Course Books
  • 2025
  • ISBN: 978-0525556572
  • 208 pages
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Everything is Tuberculosis
About the Book

In 2019, author John Green met Henry Reider, a young tuberculosis patient at Lakka Government Hospital in Sierra Leone. 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. ebook icon Audio book icon

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John Green
About the Author

John Green is the award-winning, #1 bestselling author of books including Looking for Alaska, The Fault in Our Stars, Turtles All the Way Down, and The Anthropocene Reviewed. With his brother, Hank, John has co-created many online video projects, including Vlogbrothers, the educational channel Crash Course and an annual livestreamed fundraiser called the Project for Awesome (P4A). John serves on the Board of Trustees for global health nonprofit Partners in Health and, in partnership with PiH and the Nerdfighter community around Vlogbrothers video, has raised over $30 million dollars to tackle maternal mortality in Sierra Leone. In 2023, John spoke at the United Nations calling for the eradication of tuberculosis cases in the next decade. John lives with his family in Indianapolis, Indiana.

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