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

“The infection has long exploited human biases and blind spots, wriggling its way through the paths injustice creates. Of course, tuberculosis doesn’t know what it’s doing- but for centuries, the disease has used social forces and prejudice to thrive wherever power systems devalue human lives.”

“Tuberculosis has come to be seen as a disease of poverty. An illness that walks the trails of injustice or inequity that we blazed for it.”

“We know how to live in a world without tuberculosis… but we choose not to live in that world”