Episode 13: Mary Mallon; Typhoid Mary
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Mary Mallon moved from Ireland and worked her way up the social ladder landing the prestigious job as a cook in New York in the early 1900s. Wherever she worked death and sickness would inexplicably follow. As an asymptomatic carrier of typhoid back when nobody knew that asymptomatic carriers existed Mary managed to spread disease at an alarming rate.
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