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  1. Apr 12, 2024 · Typhoid Mary (born September 23, 1869, Cookstown, County Tyrone, Ireland—died November 11, 1938, North Brother Island, Bronx, New York, U.S.) was an infamous typhoid carrier who allegedly gave rise to multiple outbreaks of typhoid fever. Mary Mallon immigrated to the United States in 1883 and subsequently made her living as a domestic servant ...

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    Mary Mallon (September 23, 1869 – November 11, 1938), commonly known as Typhoid Mary, was an Irish-born American cook who is believed to have infected between 51 and 122 people with typhoid fever. The infections caused three confirmed deaths, with unconfirmed estimates of as many as 50.

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  3. Bettmann / Corbis. One March day in 1907, a man appeared at the Park Avenue brownstone where 37-year-old Mary Mallon worked as a cook. He demanded a little bit of her blood, urine and feces. “It ...

  4. Sep 29, 2012 · Mary Mallon was born in 1869 in Ireland and emigrated to the US in 1884. She had worked in a variety of domestic positions for wealthy families prior to settling into her career as a cook. As a healthy carrier of Salmonella typhi her nickname of “Typhoid Mary” had become synonymous with the spread of disease, as many were infected due to ...

    • Filio Marineli, Gregory Tsoucalas, Marianna Karamanou, George Androutsos
    • Ann Gastroenterol. 2013; 26(2): 132-134.
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  5. Jul 4, 2019 · Biography of Typhoid Mary, Who Spread Typhoid in Early 1900s. The sad story of a woman responsible for several typhoid outbreaks. 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 ...

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  6. Mar 17, 2020 · “The story of Typhoid Mary indicates how difficult it is to teach infected people to guard against infecting others,“ Soper warned. But the authorities had already changed the way they ...

  7. 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 of ...

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