What 'Typhoid Mary' can teach us about the current pandemic
Image of Mary Mallon in a hospital bed that published in the June 20, 1909 issue of The New York American. TORONTO -- The novel coronavirus pandemic may remind us ofanother deadly infectious disease: typhoid fever.
for infecting dozens of people with typhoid fever while she worked as a cook for wealthy families in New York City at the turn of the 20th century. At the time, medical knowledge and understanding of asymptomatic carriers of disease was essentially non-existent, which is part of what made Mallon’s story all the more intriguing to doctors and public health officials.
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