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HowStuffWorks "Who was Typhoid Mary?" - 2 views

  • Painful diarrhea, high fever, nasty red rashes and sleeplessness typically characterize the illness.
  • Left untreated, typhoid can result in death.
  • Salmonella typhi, the parasite that causes typhoid fever, spreads through water and food, making the disease highly contagiou
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  • Typhoid Mary, for intentionally spreading the deadly illness
  • In turn-of-the-century New York City, typhoid was a growing problem. The Department of Health had a lot on its plate; in addition to typhoid, it was trying to quell outĀ­breaks of smallpox, tuberculosis, diphtheria and whooping cough that were sweeping through the area [source: NOVA]. Luckily,
  • scientists had developed a sophisticated understanding of microbial diseases and how they spread -- even if everyone in the lay public didn't quite
  • rasp all of it yet.The Department of Health knew what caused typhoid, but dealin
  • g with the spread of the disease was another question altogether. It's a question that plagues us to this day. It's no longer considered humane to simply cast contagious disease victims out of society and into the wilderness to fend for themselves. What exactly to do with them remains controversial. Authorities must walk the line between keeping their societies safe from debilitating illness and infringing on the victims' personal rights. This controversy reached a fever pitch in early 20th-century New York when it came to one individual.It might surprise you to learn that this fervor revolved around someone who was actually immune to typhoid. Though it's uncommon, some people are naturally immune to the illness, meaning they can carry the parasite and never suffer from a single symptom. Nevertheless, these people can just as easily spread the disease to others. This was the case for one Mary Mallon, aka Typhoid Mary. She was in the wrong place at the wrong time as well as in the worst possible occupation for a carrier of typhoid: She was a cook.
  • Painful diarrhea, high fever, nasty red rashes and sleeplessness typically characterize the illness. Left untreated, typhoid can result in death.
Caden Lewis

HowStuffWorks "Search" - 2 views

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    Good Videos on Yellow Fever
Megan Sherwin

"Reaction to the Black Death" - 0 views

  • Because the physicians blamed the Black Death on an evil, polluted fog, logical recommendations to prevent the fever involved avoiding these miasmas, or corruptions of air.
  • ing during the daytime and avoiding sad thoughts about death and disease. M
  • ny medieval tracts address how to avoid sickness, but we know very little about how medieval doctors tried to cure the disease
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      How people reacted to the Black Death
Dylan Hicks

HowStuffWorks "The Black Death" - 1 views

  • The symptoms of the Black Death were gruesome: Tumors covered the body -- some of them as big as an egg or apple, Boccaccio wrote. A large neck tumor might permanently cock a person's head in the opposite direction. Purplish splotches also covered the body. These were nicknamed "God's tokens," because God usually took the sufferer soon after they appeared. The sick even smelled like they were going to die. Bad breath and odors indicated they were rotting from the inside.
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