Words on Wednesday: Everything is Tuberculosis

Date2026-08-19 · 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
LocationMain Library
CategoryCommunity
Agesadults older adults
PriceFree
SourceOak Park Public Library

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 an

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