Discussion around the historical figure Mary Mallon—also known as Typhoid Mary—has picked up on Twitter after a Harvard professor published a controversial tweet. On Tuesday, Martin Kulldorff, a ...

In March of 1907, a cook by the name of Mary Mallon was arrested in New York, charged with being “a typhoid carrier and a menace to the community.” Although she had no symptoms, she was a carrier of ...

More than a hundred years ago, Typhoid Mary was a super spreader of the infectious disease typhoid fever. She had no symptoms herself, and did not believe that she infected others. Mary Mallon was a ...

There's a difference between being quarantined and being ordered — in New York State, these days, that amounts to being asked, really — to stay at home to slow the spread of disease. One is an ...

TODAY marks 110 years since a New York sanitation officer identified the source of a Typhoid outbreak as Mary Mallon, who became known as Typhoid Mary. But he was not a pervert. George Soper was an ...

In the ongoing and often heated debate over imposed masking and vaccination in the face of yet another COVID-19 surge, the history of Mary Mallon — "Typhoid Mary" — is instructive. Mallon was a cook ...