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“In a world where everyone can eat, and access healthcare, and be treated humanely, tuberculosis has no chance. Ultimately, we are the cause.”
― John Green, Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

“And so we must fight not just for reform within the system but also for better systems that understand human health not primarily as a market”
― John Green, Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

“There’s even emerging evidence that one’s microbiome may have a relationship with thought itself through the gut-brain information axis, meaning that at least some of my thoughts may belong not to me, but to the microorganisms in my digestive tract.”
― John Green, Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

“But of course people are not just their economic productivity. We do not exist primarily to be plugged into cost-benefit analyses. We are here to love and be loved, to understand and be understood.”
― John Green, Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection