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  1. Apr 19, 2020 · But even before that there was the extraordinary story of Typhoid Mary, a young Irish immigrant working as a cook in New York at the beginning of the 20th Century who left in her wake a trail...

  2. Jul 4, 2019 · Mary Mallon (September 23, 1869–November 11, 1938), known as "Typhoid Mary," was the cause of several typhoid outbreaks. Since Mary was the first "healthy carrier" of typhoid fever recognized in the United States, she did not understand how someone not sick could spread disease—so she tried to fight back.

  3. A newspaper illustration during her first imprisonment conveyed the public’s morbid fascination with her: An aproned woman casually drops miniature human skulls into a skillet, like eggs. Today,...

  4. Mar 17, 2020 · March 17, 2020. • 7 min read. George Soper was not your typical detective. He was a civil engineer by training, but had become something of an expert in sanitation. So when, in 1906, a landlord in...

  5. Mary was unaware that she was carrying the bacterial infection and in 1907 she was the first person in the United States to be identified as an asymptomatic carrier (showing no symptoms) of the...

  6. Mar 10, 2020 · Rory Carroll. Tue 10 Mar 2020 03.30 EDT. Mary Mallon was a super-spreader before the term existed, a disease carrier so notorious she acquired a celebrity nickname: Typhoid Mary. Mallon showed...

  7. Mar 20, 2020 · Super Spreader: The Strange Story of Typhoid Mary By Ellen Gutoskey | Mar 20, 2020 Mary Mallon, an unwitting typhoid carrier and unwilling hospital patient, in the early 1900s.

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