Maybe not everything, but a surprising amount for sure. Green is entirely right that I don’t give much thought to tuberculosis. It feels like a historical disease, like scurvy. But of course, tuberculosis is still enormously pervasive in certain parts of the world. It’s interesting to me that he focuses on the way the disease is ravaging parts of Africa when even within North America there are communities being affected. For example, here in Canada, of the 23.8% of cases of tuberculosis that manifest in […]
“the history and present of tuberculosis reveal the folly and brilliance and cruelty and compassion of humans.
Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green





