1869
Mary Mallon, American cook and typhoid carrier (died 1938)
Mary Mallon, American cook and typhoid carrier (died 1938)
Mary Mallon, American cook and typhoid carrier (died 1938)
Mary Mallon
Irish-American cook who was a carrier of typhoid fever in New York
- Born
- 1869
Mary Mallon, commonly known as Typhoid Mary, was an Irish-born cook who lived in the United States from a young age and is believed to have infected up to fifty-seven people with the bacteria that cause typhoid fever. The infections caused three confirmed deaths. She was the first person in the U.S. to be identified as an asymptomatic carrier of Salmonella Typhi bacteria.
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