John Green explores tuberculosis through a personal story and its historical impact. A deeply human look at a deadly disease.
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John Green explores tuberculosis through a personal story and its historical impact. A deeply human look at a deadly disease.
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John Green, the #1 bestselling author of The Anthropocene Reviewed and a passionate advocate for global healthcare reform, tells a deeply human story illuminating the fight against the world’s deadliest disease.
Tuberculosis has been entwined with humanity for millennia. Once romanticized as a malady of poets, today tuberculosis is a disease of poverty that walks the trails of injustice and inequity we blazed for it.
In 2019, John Green met Henry, a young tuberculosis patient at Lakka Go...
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