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CDC - Typhoid Fever: Technical Information - NCZVED - 5 views

  • In the United States, an estimated 5,700 cases of typhoid fever occur annually, mostly among travelers. An estimated 21 million cases of typhoid fever and 200,000 deaths occur worldwide.
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Reading In White Bear Lake.......: Book Review: Fever by Mary Beth Keane - 2 views

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    this is a book we need to get
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Mary Mallon Biography (1869-1938) - 3 views

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    good info
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FEVER / MARY MALLON | Mary Beth Keane - 4 views

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      this is a cool timeline and it even summarize
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      from birth to death
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    this is so cool
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NOVA | Typhoid Mary: Villain or Victim? - 3 views

  • Mary Mallon (wearing glasses) photographed with bacteriologist Emma Sherman on North Brother Island in 1931 or 1932, over 15 years after she had been quarantined there permanently Enlarge Photo credit: Courtesy of Ed and Bubbles Yadow
  • redit: Courtesy of Ed and Bubbles Yadow
  • Mallon was not a free agent in 1914, when she returned to cooking. Consider her circumstances. She had been abruptly, even violently, wrenched from her life, a life in which she found various satisfactions and from which she earned a decent living. She was physically separated from all that was familiar to her and isolated on an island. She was labeled a monster and a freak. [For more on the quarantine of Mary Mallon, aka "Typhoid Mary," see In Her Own Words.]
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  • To be sure, Mary Mallon was not entirely blameless when she knowingly returned to cooking in 1915, but the blame must be more broadly shared. Much of what Mallon did can be explained by events greater than herself and beyond her control.
  • the New York City Health Commissioner who had released her in 1910
  • , helped her find a job in a laundry, it did not provide the wages or job satisfaction to which she had previously become accustomed. Nor did it provide the social amenities, as limited as they were, of domestic work in the homes of New York's upper class.
  • Lederle's words of obligation to help her in 1910
  • did not provide her
  • long-term gainful employment.
  • precipitously locked Mallon up, succeed in convincing Mallon that her danger to the health of people for whom she cooked was real and lifelong. The medical arguments that carried weight among the elite at the time and have become more broadly convincing since did not resonate with her. There was no welfare system to support her. There was no viable "safety net," practical or intellectual, for an unemployed middle-aged Irish immigrant single woman.
  • An old file card detailing results from tests on stool specimens from Mary Mallon gives a capsule history of her capture and quarantine. Enlarge
  • Hard choices
  • Health officials chose not to deal with their first identified healthy carrier in a flexible way.
  • Part of the New York American article of June 20, 1909, which first identified Mary Mallon as "Typhoid Mary" Enlarge
  • Proper treatment
  • The Most Dangerous Woman in America.
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    good resource
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Recipe for disaster: How Mary Mallon became Typhoid Mary: Student Research Center - pow... - 2 views

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    timeline
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Mary Mallon ("Typhoid Mary") (?1870-1938): Student Research Center - powered by EBSCOhost - 2 views

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    Mary Mallon
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Clues to Typhoid Mary Mystery: Student Research Center - powered by EBSCOhost - 0 views

  • The article focuses on the study conducted by Denise M. Monack and colleagues at Standford University medical school which examines the association of Salmonella typhi and typhoid outbreaks in New York through a woman named Mary Mallon, also famous as Typhoid Mary.
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      wow look at a few of these words
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typhoid fever -- Britannica School - 0 views

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    typhoid fever facts
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NOVA | The Most Dangerous Woman in America | In Her Own Words image 1 | PBS - 2 views

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    this is in Mary Mallon's words written
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Pierre Bretonneau: Student Research Center - powered by EBSCOhost - 2 views

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    this is another biography
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Recipe for disaster: How Mary Mallon became Typhoid Mary: Student Research Center - pow... - 2 views

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    omg it is a biography
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Typhoid Fever - 0 views

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    tells you who gets it and how it spreads. 
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The Most Dangerous Woman in America - 1 views

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      click this image to see her handwriting and to see the original document that she wrote 
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      with the cursive writing
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    this is great
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How Typhoid Fever Affects the Body -- The Doctors - YouTube - 1 views

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    this is cool
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