A Teenager's Cough Created Modern Warfare's Deadliest Weapon
20th Century

A Teenager's Cough Created Modern Warfare's Deadliest Weapon

A seventeen-year-old tuberculosis patient coughs blood onto a hotel towel and accidentally creates the deadliest weapon of the twentieth century.

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Austria-HungaryEarly 20th CenturyMedical HistoryBiological WarfareScientific EthicsViennaTuberculosisMilitary TechnologyHeinrich GrossBéla Schick

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