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Article: Typhoid Mary
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TYPHOID MARY
Mary Mallon (1870?
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1938), known as Typhoid Mary, was an itinerant domestic servant and cook, probably an Irish immigrant, though possibly American-born (her origin and early life are un-known). She probably had typhoid fever in 1899 and made an apparently complete recovery. However, she was a symptomless carrier of typhoid bacilli, presumably from a nidus of infection in her gallbladder, for many years
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perhaps for the rest of her life.
Between 1900 and 1907, Mallon is known to have infected twenty-two people in New York City, passing the typhoid bacillus to them in cakes she had baked. One of these persons died. The nascent clinical science of bacteriological ...
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Article: TYPHOID MARY*
Poetry;
December 1, 2004 ;
269 words
... ... lethal. To be told that, you know. Wondered woman, sat down before your blood and begged it, Turn. Thirty years on Brother Island eating hosts, round and changed. Ah, Mary, named so inappropriately. We hear your magnificat just above the hard rule ...
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