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“Tuberculosis is so often, and in so many ways, a disease of vicious cycles: It’s an illness of poverty that worsens poverty. It’s an illness that worsens other illnesses—from HIV to diabetes. It’s an illness of weak healthcare systems that weakens healthcare systems. It’s an illness of malnutrition that worsens malnutrition. And it’s an illness of the stigmatized that worsens stigmatization. In the face of all this, it’s easy to despair. TB doesn’t just flow through the meandering river of injustice; TB broadens and deepens that river.”
― John Green, Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

“child born in Sierra Leone is over one hundred times as likely to die of tuberculosis than a child born in the United States. This difference, as Dr. Joia Mukherjee writes, is “not caused by genetics, biology, or culture. Health inequities are caused by poverty, racism, lack of medical care, and other social forces.”
― John Green, Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

“It was as if the cure did not exist—because the disease was where the cure was not, and the cure was where the disease was not.”
― John Green, Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

“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