Each year, tuberculosis kills some 1.25 million people globally and more than 10 times that number become infected with the disease annually, according to the World Health Organization.

EVERYTHING IS TUBERCULOSIS: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection, by John Green Tuberculosis kills more people — over a million a year worldwide — than any other infectious ...

The cover of "Everything is Tuberculosis" and author John Green. (Courtesy of Penguin Random House and Marina Waters) Author John Green won acclaim for fiction like “The Fault in Our Stars,” a ...

Mycobacterium tuberculosis is a near-perfect predator. In 1882, Robert Koch, the physician who discovered the microbe, told a room full of scientists that it caused one in seven of all deaths.

John Green speaks at the pre-Hill Day training session. (Courtesy TB Fighters/Asher Blumenthal) Outbreaks of measles in the D.C. region and across the U.S. have been making the news, but this ...

Tuberculosis is one of the oldest diseases in human history – and it still kills more than a million people every year. In a new book, The Fault in Our Stars author John Green argues the ...