How Arthur Got Tuberculosis?

Due to Arthur beating up Thomas Downes, who has Tuberculosis, under Leopold Strauss

' orders, while Arthur held him up against the fence, Downes coughs on him, which causes him to receive Tuberculosis. He later learns of it after he was helped to the hospital while almost passing out in Saint Denis.

How did Arthur get tuberculosis?

Who Gave Arthur TB In Red Dead Redemption 2? ... Coughing blood is one of the major signs of TB, so not only did this confirm the Downes patriarch was sick, but it confirms he was the source of Arthur's own sickness as well, since coughing infected blood in someone's face is a sure-fire way to get them sick, too.

When did Arthur contract TB?

There was no hope of a cure for TB in 1899 when Arthur Morgan contracts the disease – the world's first antibiotic, penicillin, was discovered in 1928, and the first TB drug, streptomycin was discovered in 1943.