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Museum shuttle recalls tuberculosis toll among Swedish weavers
Original: This weaving shuttle is a late-1800s tuberculosis vector, kept in the Textile Museum of Borås. Many textile workers caug
A weaving shuttle at the Textile Museum of Borås illustrates how tuberculosis spread among textile workers in the late 1800s. Workers drew yarn through a small hole using a wire, contaminating the tool with saliva, and English employers found disease rates correlated with a particular type of loom. The artefact is being shared as a striking example of occupational disease history.
Why now: The story of a simple loom tool spreading a deadly disease is a striking piece of industrial and medical history.
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- This weaving shuttle is a late-1800s tuberculosis vector, kept in the Textile Museum of Borås. Many textile workers caught the disease, and English employers found a correlation with a certain type of loom. You were supposed to get the yarn out of that little hole with a wire… · mrundkvist@archaeo.social · 25
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