Mary Mallon (September 23, 1869 – November 11, 1938), commonly known as Typhoid Mary, was an Irish-born American cook who is believed to have infected between 51 and 122 people …

Nov 7, 2025 · Mary Mallon, who was given the nickname Typhoid Mary, was identified as a carrier of the typhoid bacterium and as the source of multiple outbreaks of typhoid fever in New York …

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.

Jun 18, 2020 · One such person was the infamous "Typhoid Mary." Not just a turn-of-phrase, Typhoid Mary was a real woman named Mary Mallon. She emigrated from Ireland to New York …

Mary Mallon in a hospital bed in 1907. No healthy carrier for typhoid had ever been identified prior to his investigation, but Soper was determined to prove that Mallon was the culprit. After …

Few instances of the thoughts and handwriting of Mary Mallon, aka "Typhoid Mary," have come down to us. The longest surviving letter, and the one most telling of her plight and state of …

Irish cook Mary Mallon (1869-1938) was dubbed "Typhoid Mary" by the media after she infected dozens of people with the dreaded disease. When Mallon worked as a cook at the turn of the …

Mar 26, 2025 · Mary Mallon—better known to history as Typhoid Mary—was placed into quarantine for the second and final time. She would remain isolated for the rest of her life, …

You've probably heard about Mary Mallon. She killed a lot of people, possibly more than any other American woman, but none of them was intentional, and she was never convicted of any crime.

One March day in 1907, a man appeared at the Park Avenue brownstone where 37-year-old Mary Mallon worked as a cook. He demanded a little bit of her blood, urine and feces.