Tells the story of early-twentieth-century Irish-American cook Mary Mallon, who was immortalized as "Typhoid Mary" after a sanitary engineer traced a 1904 typhoid fever outbreak back to her Long Island kitchen.
Tells the story of early-twentieth-century Irish-American cook Mary Mallon, who was immortalized as "Typhoid Mary" after a sanitary engineer traced a 1904 typhoid fever outbreak back to her Long Island kitchen.
Typhoid Mary, Mary Mallon became famous as an asymptomatic typhoid carrier. But who was Typhoid Mary, really? And did she deserve all the scorn heaped upon her?.
