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E17 Mary Mallon, aka Typhoid Mary, and Cold Desserts


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The tale of Typhoid Mary is a famous one, but how was it that Mary Mallon managed to spread typhoid in New York? The tale is stranger than you think.

Music, as always, is by jjstiano, at Looperman.

Image from Lupo 09:59, 24 March 2006 (UTC) - According to http://www.newsday.com/community/guide/lihistory/ny-history-702b,0,3017376.photo?coll=ny-lihistory-navigation[dead link] this is an illustration that appeared in 1909 in The New York American. (According to http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/typhoid/mary.html, the precise date was June 20, 1909)., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=689799

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