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“About half of all humans ever died before the age of five.”
― John Green, Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

“tuberculosis is listed in Guinness World Records as the oldest contagious disease.”
― John Green, Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

“Looking at history through any single lens creates distortions, because history is too complex for any one way of looking to suffice.”
― John Green, Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

“We are powerful enough to light the world at night, to artificially refrigerate food, to leave Earth's atmosphere and orbit it from outer space. But we cannot save those we love from suffering. This is the story of human history as I understand it- the story of the organism that can do so much, but cannot do what it most wants.”
― John Green , Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection