Pria Anand

Pria Anand is a neurologist and the author of The Mind Electric: A Neurologist on the Strangeness and Wonder of Our Brains. She teaches at Boston University and practices at Boston Medical Center. (December 2025)

The Plague That Won’t Die

As my recent diagnosis shows, tuberculosis is not a relic of medical history. It remains the leading infectious cause of death worldwide—and America is hardly immune.

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

by John Green

Phantom Plague: How Tuberculosis Shaped History

by Vidya Krishnan

December 18, 2025 issue