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Mary Mallon (Typhoid Mary)
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Cook's Town, County Tyrone, Ireland
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New York, New York
10 interesting facts about me!!
1. I lived in Ireland up until I was 15.
2.One of my most popular dishes, peach ice-cream, is what is said to have spread the Typhoid bacteria the most, since raw peaches were involved.
3. I used many different aliases when I was trying to remain a cook after being told not to, one of them was Mary Brown.
4. I was accused multiple times by Soper and other officials of being unclean (not washing my hands enough etc.)
5. I had a pet dog when I lived in isolation.
6. I spent 26 years in forced isolation.
7. The Typhoid bacillus was located primarily in my gall-bladder.
8. I refused to get my gall-bladder removed although doctors insisted.
9. I refused and threatened police when I was asked to give a blood/stool sample.
10. I filed a law suit against the U.S. health department because i believed I was being forced into quarantine unfairly. I ended up losing the law suit.
Work Experience
Worked as a cook from 1900-1907
- worked for 7 families in that time
- Two families she worked for were the Warren's and the Gilsey's
- all families became ill with Typhoid fever shortly after her being there
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This is the nasty bacteria that was responsible for all the sickness I spread!!
Birthday/ family info
Salmonella typhi
- Born September 23rd, 1869
- Mary stayed with her aunt and uncle after immigrating from Ireland
- She never had a husband or any kids
Salmonella typhi is the bacteria which causes the bacterial infection of Typhoid fever. Typhoid fever can have mild or very extreme symptoms. Some symptoms include
- headaches
- diarrhea
- constipation
- abdominal pain
- a fever of up to 104
- intestinal bleeding (if untreated for several weeks)
If cases aren't extreme, Typhoid fever can be treated with a course of antibiotics and lots of bed rest. If cases are more extreme then subject may need to be hospitalized.
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Here's a photo from a popular article published about me and my case!
- Died November 11th, 1938 (age 69)
- Mary died in quarantine on North Brother Island at the Riverside hospital, where she was forced to live after being convicted of spreading the infection.
- Mary's cause of death was pneumonia, after suffering 6 years with the aftermath affects of a stroke
Famous for
Mary Mallon was convicted by George Soper, a sanitary director who's main job was tracking down the sources of outbreak in big cities, of being a carrier of Typhoid bacillus, a bacteria that causes Typhoid fever. Typhoid fever was a serious and sometimes deadly disease back in Mary's time and she was said to have infected 51 people, 3 of which died. Mary was also the first person in the United States to have been an asymptomatic carrier of the disease, meaning she didn't display any of the symptoms of Typhoid fever.