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Author John Green’s book “Everything is Tuberculosis” traces the history of the disease, which, for millennia, was the world’s deadliest infection. Even though effective treatments exist, they’re so hard to access in the developing world that more than 1,000,000 people die every year from TB.
Green, author of “The Fault in Our Stars” and “The Anthropocene Reviewed,” argues that the global community could work to eliminate tuberculosis, but lacks the will.
We revisit host Robin Young’s conversation with Green from March.
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