Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

by John Green

Still, over a million people died of tuberculosis in 2023. That year, in fact, more people died of TB than died of malaria, typhoid, and war combined.

“Nothing is so privileged as thinking history belongs to the past.”

in fact, it’s possible that my particular microbiome is at least partly responsible for my OCD, meaning that the microbes are the reason I’m so deeply afraid of microbes.[*]