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The November book will be "Everything is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection" by John Green. Book club will meet on Wednesday, November 12th at 7:00 pm at 2000 Malvern Rd. and via Zoom.Sign up to receive Book Club notices and Zoom links at: https://secure.everyaction.com/Bs8BwbneEkuM2phj8pJHbA2
"Tuberculosis has been entwined with humanity for millennia. Once romanticized as a malady of poets, today tuberculosis is seen as a disease of poverty that walks the trails of injustice and inequity we blazed for it.
In 2019, author John Green met Henry Reider, a young tuberculosis patient at Lakka Government Hospital in Sierra Leone. John became fast friends with Henry, a boy with spindly legs and a big, goofy smile.
In the years since that first visit to Lakka, Green has become a vocal advocate for increased access to treatment and wider awareness of the healthcare inequities that allow this curable, preventable infectious disease to also be the deadliest, killing over a million people every year.
In Everything is Tuberculosis, John tells Henry's story, woven through with the scientific and social histories of how tuberculosis has shaped our world--and how our choices will shape the future of tuberculosis" -- Provided by publisher.
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2000 Malvern Rd, Columbus, OH 43221-4127, United States
