9 Lessons I Learned About Everything Is Tuberculosis: How One Infection Shaped My Understanding of Health, History, and Resilience (Personal Reflection Book)

It started, as these things often do, with a story I wasn't supposed to hear. I was sitting in the back of a medical van in Freetown, Sierra Leone, eavesdropping on a conversation between a nurse and a teenage boy named Henry.

He was coughing between his sentences, a dry, persistent rattle that sounded more like a metronome than a symptom. The nurse leaned in, scribbled something in a worn notebook, and gave a half-smile. I remember it vividly because of what she didn't say.

Henry had tuberc...