Typhoid Mary: Villain or Victim? Public support plummeted and opinion turned against Mary Mallon in 1915 because of her conscious return to cooking when people believed she should have learned her ...

She is the author of Typhoid Mary: Captive to the Public's Health (Beacon Press, 1996), on which the NOVA program "The Most Dangerous Woman in America" was based and from which this article was ...

Did the infamous Typhoid Mary cause the deaths of thousands of people? Snopes Membership. ... Naming it didn't cure it, though, and prior to the 1940s typhoid killed one out of every ten victims.

Mary Mallon unknowingly infected people with typhoid fever, earning her the infamous name “Typhoid Mary”—but was she the victim or the villain of this story?

ARABLOUEI: Ultimately, Mary was traced to a total of about 50 typhoid cases and three deaths. This is tragic, no doubt, but Mary was forced to spend the rest of her life in quarantine.

Typhoid Mary was born on this day in 1869, ... At first, Sober blamed a bad batch of clams, but some of the outbreak's victims hadn't eaten the clams.

Irishwoman Mary Mallon (better known as ‘Typhoid Mary’) was an infamous asymptomatic typhoid carrier who has been blamed for the deaths of several people. 3.15pm, 16 Jul 2015 12.6k ...

Mary Mallon was not the only cook who ever made people sick with her meals. Still, one unexpected ingredient in her recipes gave her a unique place in American history. It prompted the courts to de… ...

Mary Mallon, here in the foreground, never contracted typhoid herself but was responsible for spreading the disease No-one ever thought we'd see a time when every news bulletin and website in the ...

NPR's Throughline Podcast discusses what the story of Typhoid Mary tells us about journalism, the powers of the state, and the tension between personal responsibility and personal liberty.