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

Courtesy of John Green. “Nikki-Rosa” on this page from Black Feeling, Black Talk, Black Judgment. Used with the permission of HarperCollins Publishers. “Tiger got to hunt” on this page from Cat’s Cradle. Chapter 7 The Flattering Malady You were either born with spes phthisica or without it. Preventive therapy was pioneered in Bethel, Alaska, where TB rates in the early 1950s were extraordinarily high (higher, in fact, than they are in Sierra Leone today).