bruna’s Reviews > Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection > Status Update

“Tuberculosis is so often, and in so many ways, a disease of vicious cycles: It’s an illness of poverty that worsens poverty. […] TB doesn’t just flow through the meandering river of injustice; TB broadens and deepens that river.”

“Active tuberculosis severely suppresses appetite, causing stomachaches and generally inhibiting the ability to eat, and once treatment commences and the infection begins to lessen, hunger roars back, which is a good sign—but only if one has enough to eat.” caralho.

“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 an organism that can do so much, but cannot do what it most wants.”