The Worst Epidemics Throughout History

A Romantic Disease

Tuberculosis is sometimes referred to as the romantic disease, as it often affected artists, writers, poets, painters, and more. John Keats, Edgar Allen Poe, Mary Shelley, Charlotte Bronte, and George Orwell are just a few of the famous writers who were infected with TB at one point in their life. It's also a disease that many characters set in that time period would have contracted.

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Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.