Mary Mallon, here in the foreground, never contracted typhoid herself but was responsible for spreading the disease No-one ever thought we'd see a time when every news bulletin and website in the ...

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In March of 1907, a cook by the name of Mary Mallon was arrested in New York, charged with being “a typhoid carrier and a menace to the community.” Although she had no symptoms, she was a carrier of ...

And now a page from our "Sunday Morning" Almanac: September 23, 1869, 149 years ago today … the day that saw the birth, in rural Ireland, of Mary Mallon – remembered today as "Typhoid Mary." She ...

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