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Mary (“Typhoid Mary” ), 1869?–1938, U.S. cook, born in Ireland: known immune carrier of typhoid fever who infected many with the disease, institutionalized in 1914. ... A cook who carried typhoid fever and passed it on to many people in and around New York City in the early twentieth century.
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Claim: Typhoid Mary caused the deaths of thousands of people. Status: False.; Origins: The public memory of ... Just as the body counts attributed to many celebrated outlaws of the Wild West far exceed the realities of their careers and the number of banks robbed by Willie Sutton grows with every passing year,
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Mary Mallon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Mary Mallon (September 23, 1869 – November 11, 1938), also known as Typhoid Mary , was the first person in the United States to be identified as a healthy carrier of typhoid fever. Over the course ...
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That discreet search suggested that Gutierrez may have unwittingly been a latter-day "Typhoid Mary". It turned up more than 300 people, including many members of the public whom she'd interviewed as she knocked on doors in late March and early April.
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Typhoid Mary: Villain or Victim? ... So she did what many other healthy carriers since have done: returned to work to support herself. And the health department responded by doing what it felt it had to do when faced with a now very public uncooperative typhoid carrier: ... We can view such people as inadvertent carriers of disease,
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Typhoid Mary had no idea that she was infected with the disease yet her work as a cook infected many. Find out all about Typhoid Mary and why authorities had a difficult time capturing Mary. ... From 1900 to 1907, Soper found that Mallon had worked at seven jobs in which 22 people had become ill, ... Typhoid Mary Captured...
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She went to work for a lawyer, until seven of the eight household members developed typhoid. Mary spent months helping to care for the people she made sick, but of course the contact made many of them worse.
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Hired to perform the bacterial detective work, George Soper soon discovered the source of the outbreak was Mary Mallon, a 37-year-old Irish immigrant cook whom he feared was a "walking typhoid fever factory." But how could this seemingly healthy woman, with no outward symptoms, infect so many people?
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Such people are called carriers. Thus, they do not know they can spread the infection. During the early 20th century, one such woman, a cook named Mary Mallon, spread typhoid fever to many people and became known as Typhoid Mary.
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