US EditionAuthor John Green meets a young tuberculosis patient
- Author John Green has been interested in tuberculosis since 2019 when he met a young TB patient named Henry Reider at Lakka Government Hospital in Sierra Leone.
- Preliminary data from the CDC shows an 8 percent increase in tuberculosis cases last year, the highest count since 2011, with international travel as a key factor.
- Kansas experienced a significant increase in its TB rate last year, while Alaska and Hawaii report the highest case rates, according to the CDC.
- The CDC emphasizes collaboration between public health programs and healthcare providers to improve TB awareness and treatment uptake in communities.
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vh2.tvFor John Green, It’s Tuberculosis All the Way Down
The first time I read a book by the best-selling young adult novelist John Green, I was on a plane. “The Fault in Our Stars,” about a teenage cancer patient who falls in love, made me cry so hard that a flight attendant repeatedly came to check on me. Mr. Green’s new book is nonfiction and it’s about tuberculosis, the infectious disease. TB, he says, has become his great obsession; he talks about it to his millions of young followers on TikTok a…
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Tuberculosis on the Rise Again in the United States
WEDNESDAY, March 26, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- Preliminary data released this month by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention indicate that more than 10,300 tuberculosis (TB) cases were reported last year, representing an 8 percent increase from 2023…
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