He was only 47 ?
Revealed: George Orwell died after catching the Tuberculosis from a grubby hospital while recovering from being shot by a sniper in the Spanish Civil War.
How George Orwell contracted the disease that killed him has been a mystery
Bacteria tests suggest that he caught TB while recovering from a bullet wound
Orwell was shot in the neck during the Spanish Civil War on May 20, 1937
He died in 1950, a year after his most well-known novel, 1984, was published
He described being shot as ‘the sensation of being at the centre of an explosion’
George Orwell is known best for his dystopian novel 1984, that was published shortly before he died.
But while it was known that tuberculosis was the cause of his death, little is understood about how he contracted the deadly condition, given he suffered a lung condition as a child.
Now, after pioneering research, it is suspected he caught the disease in hospital while recovering from a gun shot from fighting in the Spanish Civil War.
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