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 ...

Classified as a mutant (as in, she could be an X-Man, if she tried) with dissociative identity disorder, or DID, Typhoid Mary has three distinct personalities: Mary Walker, her “real” identity, a ...

"Woman Cook a Walking Typhoid Fever Factory," said the headline in a New York City newspaper in 1907. The woman was Mary Mallon, an Irish immigrant who as "Typhoid Mary" would become a notorious ...

Mary Mallon was a great cook. So great that she'd made a comfortable life for herself in the kitchens of the rich after arriving in New York City as a penniless teenager from Ireland. She was ...

More than a hundred years ago, Typhoid Mary was a super spreader of the infectious disease typhoid fever. She had no symptoms herself, and did not believe that she infected others. Mary Mallon was a ...

When a cook who carried typhoid fever refused to stop working, despite showing no symptoms, the authorities forcibly quarantined her for nearly three decades. Perfect villain or just a woman ...

Oct. 17—Cheyenne's Central High School theater program is retuning in full capacity with a surprisingly relevant and intimate production of "Typhoid Mary." The play tells the story of Mary Mallon, an ...

NPR's Throughline Podcast discusses what the story of Typhoid Mary tells us about journalism, the powers of the state, and the tension between personal responsibility and personal liberty. There's a ...

I know, I know, I hate these "she was seen with" rumors, too, but this one is far more legitimate than the Eva Longoria story from last year. Over on the blog for the Golden Apple comic book shop in ...