Although the disease is now treatable, the emergence of drug-resistant strains could complicate care. And millions of ...

TB killed more than 1.2 million people in 2023, likely making it once again the deadliest infection on Earth, after it was briefly supplanted by Covid-19 during the pandemic. And as John Green, YA ...

John Green’s new book, Everything Is Tuberculosis, reveals how social injustice sustains the disease, despite available cures and vaccines.

"At the time, I knew almost nothing about TB. To me, it was a disease of history — something that killed depressive ...

John Green on the difficult campaign to eradicate a deadly disease. ‘Funding for TB is in crisis,’ says John Green, author of ...

The tuberculosis epidemic also led to the ... labeled the "the revolt against the whisker." Up until the late 19th century, spitting in public was considered acceptable social behavior in America ...

At the beginning of the 19th century, though there had been some ... He identified the bacteria that cause anthrax, tuberculosis and cholera. Koch was very thorough. To isolate the anthrax ...

In "Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence ... you initially thought of TB as a disease of the past — of "19th-century poets." How was it to have that idea dispelled through ...