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Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection is an upcoming book by American author John Green about tuberculosis. It is set to be published in March 2025 and will be Green's second nonfiction book.




Background


John Green is a young adult novelist who wrote the 2012 book The Fault in Our Stars. He is also well known for his YouTube channel Vlogbrothers which he started with his brother, Hank. From that YouTube channel started the annual Project for Awesome charity event in 2007, which supports Partners In Health, among other charities. Following his last novel, Turtles All the Way Down, Green described himself as "retired" from young adult fiction. He published a book of essays, The Anthropocene Reviewed, in 2021, which acted as a loose memoir.

Green became interested in tuberculosis on a visit to Sierra Leone with Partners In Health in 2019, where he became aware that it was not "a problem of the past" but an ongoing global issue despite being curable. He spent several years engaging with experts and learning about the disease, speaking about it before the United Nations in 2023. That year, he also rallied his audience to petition Johnson & Johnson and Cepheid to ease access to the tuberculosis treatment bedaquiline and rapid diagnostic testing for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, respectively, which both companies did.




Summary and release


Green described the book as "a history of human responses to tuberculosis intertwined with a contemporary story of one person's experience". The contemporary story is largely that of Henry, a Sierra Leonean boy who shares Green's son's name. He announced the book's title, Everything Is Tuberculosis on October 22, 2024. It is planned to be released on March 18, 2025.
The cover was designed by Grace Han, who also designed the cover for The Anthropocene Reviewed.




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John Green Visits the United Nations

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• Globalisasi
• Everything Is Tuberculosis
• John Green
• History of tuberculosis
• Crash Course (web series)
• George Gurdjieff
• Piedmont Sanatorium
• List of In Our Time programmes
• Tuberculosis in China
• Nineteen Eighty-Four
• Walker Percy