In the early 1900s, when typhoid fever was associated with slums and their dismal sanitation, epidemiologists — and everyone else — wanted to know why an outbreak of the deadly bacterial infection ...

"Woman Cook a Walking Typhoid Fever Factory," said the headline in a New York City newspaper in 1907. The woman was Mary Mallon, an Irish immigrant who as "Typhoid Mary" would become a notorious ...

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 ...

Oct. 17—Cheyenne's Central High School theater program is retuning in full capacity with a surprisingly relevant and intimate production of "Typhoid Mary." The play tells the story of Mary Mallon, an ...

When a cook who carried typhoid fever refused to stop working, despite showing no symptoms, the authorities forcibly quarantined her for nearly three decades. Perfect villain or just a woman ...

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 ...

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. “It did not take Mary long ...

Mary Mallon, an immigrant woman working in New York City in the early 1900s, became the most famous symbol of infectious disease in the United States. But the true story behind “Typhoid Mary” is more ...

Following the success of “Kitchen Confidential,” his confessional about scuffling through the streets and restaurants of New York City, Anthony Bourdain took a hard left turn with his next project and ...