Everything Is Tuberculosis
by John Green · first published 2025
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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 injustice 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 inequities that allo
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So, for those interested in things like this, I can highly recommend John Green's recent "Everything is Tuberculosis." I bought it due to enjoying "the Anthropocene Reviewed", and... struggled with it, as this is a thoroughly depressing subject, but making it through the book was an educational experience, which I rate…
on “Tuberculosis shaped Victorian fashion (2016)” ↗Same with Ezra Kline's "Abundance" vs. John Green's "An Abundance of Katherines." But I kinda like swapping in John Green—"Everything is Tuberculosis" was a good read for me this year.
on “Show HN: Books mentioned on Hacker News in 2025” ↗The Last Days of the Dinosaurs by Riley Black. Mindhunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit by John E. Douglas and Mark Olshaker.. Everything is Tuberculosis by John Greene. Nuclear War: A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen.. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy D. Snyder. Animal Farm by George Orwell.. (a re-read) Fahrenheit 451 by…
on “Ask HN: Books in 2025” ↗…column NYTimes, Where's Your Ed At 2025 Books: Abundance, Human Nature - Thomas Bell, (Plus a handful of books on maintaining faith despite not being politically conservative) Looking forward to in 2026: Everything is Tuberculosis - John Green
on “Ask HN: What did you read in 2025?” ↗…Nine-Month Race to Make the Impossible Possible, Albert Bourla - Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism, Anne Case - The Vaccine: Inside the Race to Conquer the COVID-19 Pandemic, Joe Miller - Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection, John Green - Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Jules Verne and Gary Gianni (Illustrator) - El Deafo, Cece Bell - Acts of God, Kanan Gill…
on “Ask HN: What did you read in 2025?” ↗…Icon’s Enduring Impact on America — Mark Whitaker • Good Inside: A Practical Guide to Resilient Parenting Prioritizing Connection Over Correction — Becky Kennedy • Interior Chinatown — Charles Yu • Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection — John Green • Dark Matter — Blake Crouch • Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things — Adam Grant • Game Engine Black Book:…
on “Ask HN: What did you read in 2025?” ↗I mean, this is a recurring theme of John Green's "Everything is Tuberculosis" TB is "just" a bacterial infection. Today, in a wealthy industrialized country with universal healthcare, if I caught TB they'd "just" cure it here. Cures are possible, often even relatively easy. But…
on “British redcoat's lost memoir reveals harsh realities of life as a disabled vet” ↗…fact that a relatively large fraction of the world's population needed intervention to fix this is an indictment on our collective will. You may have read, or at least heard about John Green's book "Everything is Tuberculosis". Treating TB is, by comparison to Guinea Worm, really hard. When medics tell John that - all being equal - nobody should die of TB because we could just fix it, they mean with like a hospital full of…
on “Guinea worm on track to be 2nd eradicated human disease; only 10 cases in 2025” ↗