"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 allow this curable, preventable infectious disease to also be the deadliest, killing over a million people every year. 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"--

Introduction : Gregory and Stokes -- Lakka -- Cowboys and assassins -- Look at our railroads -- That wealth never warded off -- Whipped away -- Tiger got to hunt -- The flattering malady -- The bacillus -- Not a person -- A study in tuberculin -- Trepidation and hope -- The cure -- Where the cure is not -- Marco. Polo. -- Dr. Girum -- Henry -- "Beat me later" -- Superbug -- Vicious cycles -- Hail Mary -- Like magic -- Virtuous cycles -- The cause and the cure -- Postscript.