Mary Mallon (1869-1938) and the history of typhoid fever

Mary Mallon was born in 1869 in Ireland and emigrated to the US in 1884. She had worked in a variety of domestic positions for wealthy families prior to settling into her career as a cook. As a healthy carrier of Salmonella typhi her nickname of “Typhoid Mary” had become synonymous with the spread o...

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Autores principales: Marineli, Filio, Tsoucalas, Gregory, Karamanou, Marianna, Androutsos, George
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hellenic Society of Gastroenterology 2013
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History in Gastroenterology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3959940/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24714738
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description Mary Mallon was born in 1869 in Ireland and emigrated to the US in 1884. She had worked in a variety of domestic positions for wealthy families prior to settling into her career as a cook. As a healthy carrier of Salmonella typhi her nickname of “Typhoid Mary” had become synonymous with the spread of disease, as many were infected due to her denial of being ill. She was forced into quarantine on two separate occasions on North Brother Island for a total of 26 years and died alone without friends, having evidently found consolation in her religion to which she gave her faith and loyalty.
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spelling pubmed-39599402014-04-07 Mary Mallon (1869-1938) and the history of typhoid fever Marineli, Filio Tsoucalas, Gregory Karamanou, Marianna Androutsos, George Ann Gastroenterol History in Gastroenterology Mary Mallon was born in 1869 in Ireland and emigrated to the US in 1884. She had worked in a variety of domestic positions for wealthy families prior to settling into her career as a cook. As a healthy carrier of Salmonella typhi her nickname of “Typhoid Mary” had become synonymous with the spread of disease, as many were infected due to her denial of being ill. She was forced into quarantine on two separate occasions on North Brother Island for a total of 26 years and died alone without friends, having evidently found consolation in her religion to which she gave her faith and loyalty. Hellenic Society of Gastroenterology 2013 /pmc/articles/PMC3959940/ /pubmed/24714738 Text en Copyright: © Hellenic Society of Gastroenterology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Mary Mallon (1869-1938) and the history of typhoid fever
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24714738
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