EP 72: Typhoid Mary
Hashtag History10 Aug 2021

EP 72: Typhoid Mary

This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing Mary Mallon - more infamously known as Typhoid Mary (or, as she has also been called, “The Most Dangerous Woman in America”) - who was the first person in the United States to be identified as an asymptomatic carrier of typhoid. By the time it was discovered that she was a carrier of the disease, she had spread typhoid fever to over fifty people; three of which would die of the disease. Even after she was arrested for being a public health threat, she continued to work in the service industry continuing to expose unknowing people to the disease. She would eventually be physically forced to quarantine, living nearly thirty years of her life in isolation before she would die.

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