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Typhoid Mary Mallon Revisited

The History Chicks : A Women's History Podcast

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The Human Typhoid Virus

People started to call her typhoid mary. She became the subject of ridicule. And she lawyered up. Maybe it was the lawyer himself, his name's o'neil,. Or maybe the lawyer was actually hired by william randolph hurst, publisher, to sell copies of his newspaper. Oh, it's a david and goliath story, starring mary malin as the victim, starring the grinding, impersonal bureaucracy as the villain with the invisible menace of typhoid. It made good copy, and he was super excited about that. But i just want to reiterate, lest we forget, mary mallin had done nothing criminal, but she had become one of

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