This month marks 100 years since Typhoid Mary was apprehended for the second and final time, living the next 23 years—the rest of her life—under quarantine. Mallon’s legend grew almost ...

Mallon knows she carries typhoid, knows she should not cook—and does so." To be sure, Mary Mallon was not entirely blameless when she knowingly returned to cooking in 1915, but the blame must be ...

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. Born in Cookstown, Co. Tyrone, Mary Mallon emigrated to New York where she was employed as a domestic assistant.

Mary Mallon, an Irish cook for New York's elite in the early 1900s, became known as the 'most harmless yet most dangerous woman in America' after being identified as an asymptomatic typhoid super ...

An asymptomatic carrier of typhoid fever, she unknowingly infected 47 people, of whom three died, according to one account. Born Mary Mallon (1869-1938), she was a gifted cook who also worked as a ...