It’s super interesting, I promise. Did y’all know that Tuberculosis, aka TB, Consumption, King’s Evil, The White Plague (because of the pale skin), etc is still a major health risk world wide? Every year, about 1.25 million people die from TB, and it’s considered the world’s most infectious disease. We can cure TB, so why is it still such a threat? Thanks to author John Green, we are going to be talking about the moral crime of TB today.
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Episode Source List:
Everything is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection. John Green. Crash Course Books, 2025.
https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/tuberculosis
https://www.who.int/health-topics/tuberculosis#tab=tab_1
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK441916/
https://www.cdc.gov/tb/about/index.html
https://www.cdc.gov/tb/about/inactive-tuberculosis.html
https://www.cdc.gov/world-tb-day/history/index.html
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/11301-tuberculosis
https://www.paho.org/en/topics/tuberculosis
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/tuberculosis/symptoms-causes/syc-20351250
https://ourworldindata.org/tuberculosis
https://www.pih.org/article/what-is-tuberculosis
https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/03/1160826
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/tuberculosis/who-report-shows-global-tuberculosis-cases-are-rising
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/tuberculosis-surge-possible-usaid-cuts-trump-who-rcna195190
https://www.statnews.com/2019/03/24/india-should-heed-a-teenagers-historic-fight-for-lifesaving-tuberculosis-treatment/
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2017/01/19/510433479/a-teens-family-fought-to-get-her-a-restricted-tb-drug-and-won
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/aug/11/patients-are-falling-through-the-cracks-drug-costs-hinder-indias-response-to-tb
https://harvardpublichealth.org/global-health/india-tb-efforts-are-floundering-thats-bad-news-for-the-world/
https://newengland.com/yankee/history/vampire-mercy-brown-rhode-island/
https://www.statnews.com/2025/04/15/harvard-tb-study-halted-sarah-fortune-trump-administration/
https://hsph.harvard.edu/research/fortune-lab/
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