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Typhoid Mary Mallon Revisited

The History Chicks : A Women's History Podcast

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I Don't Have Any Sisters, I Want to Get Off This Island

Mallan's treatment was inconsistent and no one knew anything. She became, in her own words, nothing but a peep show for interns. Researchers had found upwards of 50 more healthy carriers of typhoid,. No one had put them in a cottage on an island. So what is mary still doing here?

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