Team:Paris Bettencourt/TB Famous People
From 2013.igem.org
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George Orwell1903-1950
Died from Tuberculosis†
English novelist / essayist
This English author, best known for his novels 1984 and Animal Farm, spent time in a tuberculosis sanatorium in 1938. In 1947 he was diagnosed with TB again. He struggled with this infection, going in and out of hospital until he died in 1950 of a hemorrhaged lung.