Tuberculosis – the world's deadliest infectious disease – could be dormant in your system for years before you realize you have it. In the US, it's relatively rare; provisional data shows that there were just over 10,000 cases in 2024. But in other parts of the world, especially lower-income countries, the disease is spreading much more actively. Worldwide, more than 10 million people are diagnosed with an active tuberculosis infection every year. And even though modern medicine has all the tools to cure it, over a million people around the world still die from the sickness annually.

Author John Green thinks that's a problem. In his book Everything is Tuberculosis , he charts the spread of tuberculosis in the past to the lessons it has to teach us in the present.

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