What Really Happened with Typhoid Mary?
The famous symptomless carrier of Typhoid Fever, Mary Mallon, never felt the effects of the fever, but never recovered from a medical system that didn't know how to treat a carrier of the...
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If you’re one of the almost five billion people with access to clean water and good hygiene, there are a lot of reasons to be thankful. For one thing, you don’t have to worry about typhoid fever. The disease, which is caused by a bacteria called Salmonella typhi, is spread by infected food, water, or contact with a sick person’s feces or urine, and symptoms include vomiting, diarrhea, and a nasty rash. But some people don’t have any symptoms at all. They’re carriers, and can still spread the disease, even though they aren’t sick themselves. Mary Mallon, better known as Typhoid Mary, was one of those carriers. In the early 1900s, typhoid fever was mainly a problem in poor urban communities - but suddenly, about 3,000 people, including rich families...
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If you’re one of the almost five billion people with access to clean water and good hygiene, there are a lot of reasons to be thankful. For one thing, you don’t have to worry about typhoid fever. The disease, which is caused by a bacteria called Salmonella typhi, is spread by infected food, water, or contact with a sick person’s feces or urine, and symptoms include vomiting, diarrhea, and a nasty rash. But some people don’t have any symptoms at all. They’re carriers, and can still spread the disease, even though they aren’t sick themselves. Mary Mallon, better known as Typhoid Mary, was one of those carriers. In the early 1900s, typhoid fever was mainly a problem in poor urban communities - but suddenly, about 3,000 people, including rich families...
