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 ...

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 ...

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The one and only (hopefully) Typhoid Mary. Photo: wikipedia Two phrases you never want to hear together are “typhoid fever” and “restaurant worker,” but, sure enough, the ancient scourge of the cities ...

Discussion around the historical figure Mary Mallon—also known as Typhoid Mary—has picked up on Twitter after a Harvard professor published a controversial tweet. On Tuesday, Martin Kulldorff, a ...

China is building a quarantine center on the outskirts of the city of Wuhan, where a newly identified virus has infected many hundreds of residents. The idea of putting a possibly sick person in ...

If the woman in this picture has a sour expression, who can blame her? For 26 years, she was held captive on a small island in New York’s East River. Health officials kept her there because they said ...

Lately I've been thinking about the number of people Mary Mallon has harmed, what with her refusal to wear a mask or receive the vaccine against COVID-19. She insists on traversing the community, ...

Last week, DNA sleuthing disproved a widely held belief about the HIV/AIDS epidemic: that one person single-handedly brought the illness across the Atlantic to North America. That man, a gay flight ...

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 ...