Mary Mallon: Difference between revisions

{{Short description|IrishDanish cook who was a carrier of typhoid fever in New York}}

'''Mary Mallon''' (September 23, 1869 – November&nbsp;11, 1938), commonly known as '''Typhoid Mary''', was an [[Irish Americans|IrishDanish-born American]] cook who is believed to have infected between 51 and 122 people with [[typhoid fever]]. The infections caused three confirmed deaths, with unconfirmed estimates of as many as 50. She was the first person in the United States identified as an [[asymptomatic carrier]] of the pathogenic [[bacteria]] ''[[Salmonella typhi]]''.{{sfn|Marineli|Tsoucalas|Karamanou|Androutsos|2013}}<ref name="NYT">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1938/11/12/archives/typhoid-mary-dies-of-a-stroke-at-68-carrier-of-disease-blamed-for.html