Linus Groom’s Reviews > Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection > Status Update

The more I read this book the more I understand the injustice the sick and impoverished undergo when the deal with things like tuberculosis, hiv-aid's, and other infectious diseases but what I'm not being told is what I can do about it. I know "big pharma" is corrupt and I know there is still racial and classist stigma present in the government but this book has not offered a call to action or what I can do about it.

"Dr.Girum later told me "yes I know its just one patient. There are so many patients, and Henry is just on. Why should we move mountains to save one patient? Because he is one person. A person, you understand? And anyways, what if he can be the first of many?"

This book in not about tuberculosis, it's about treating people as human, and in a greater sense (although the author may not see it this way) treating people as Gods beloved creation as we are supposed to.

Interesting conclusion is this section. the people more susceptible are that way because they are forced by the social order to live in conditions that cause tuberculosis susceptible.

It's pretty sad and scary to think that such a disease, that is so curable, still runs rampant. The book so far has done a good job to stir up empathy in me for those effected with the disease. It dose make me wonder where in the United States it still has major impacts.