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In the movie Tombstone, no one ever objects to being close to Doc Holliday, even though he's visibly wasting away from tuberculosis, and coughing all the time. Is this accurate for the late 19th Century? Did people still not understand that coughs were infectious?

by /u/Jerswar in /r/AskHistorians

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