Typhoid Mary: Captive to the Public's Health by Judith Walzer Leavitt

Typhoid Mary: Captive to the Public's Health

Judith Walzer Leavitt

352 pages 1996

3 editions

nonfiction biography history science challenging informative slow-paced
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She was an Irish immigrant cook. Between 1900 and 1907, she infected twenty-two New Yorkers with typhoid fever through her puddings and cakes; one of them died. Tracked down through epidemiological detective work, she was finally apprehended as sh...

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