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Typhoid fever spreads like "lies", it will not stop

spreading from carriers to carriers unless one

brings himself out of the chains.

The Debut of

Typhoid Mary &

The Discovery

Funfact:
This isn't the bacteria that caused "food poisoning" but the two are related.

Before and early of 1900s "7 families of 22 people

infected including 1 girl

Typhoid fever was a disease said to only

attacked mostly poor urban communities. who had DIED"

In 1883, Mary Mallon immigrated from Ireland to New

York City and started cooking for wealthy families and George Soper, a freelance

THEY GOT SICK. In 1903, she moved to Oyster Bay and sanitary engineer,

caused another. investigated the case and
put the pieces together

from Mary's history

employment.
POSITIVE test

Her feces was tested and later she Mary was undeniably an

was quarantined in North Brother

Island. asymptotic typhoid carrier
3 years later, she was released and

promised not to cook again but she Q: Even if she didn't

broke it to survive living under NEW wash her hands, any

FAKE NAME: Mary Brown . bacteria would have

died from the high
"Infecting 25 workers temperature of cooking

and killing 2 people" process. So how?

She made RAW peaches ice cream -

5 years later, typhoid broke out at THE NON COOKED FOOD

Sloane Maternity Hospital in

Manhattan and she was caught and

taken back to North Brother Island How would you vision the Salmonella

quarantined for over 23 years until

she died in 1938. typhi?
Always remembered as the first

typhoid carrier in US.

What is Salmonella?

First discovered by an American scientist, Dr. Daniel Elmer

Salmon in 1885.

The genus “Salmonella” was named after Daniel Elmer

Salmon, a veterinary pathologist who ran a The United States

Department of Agriculture (USDA) microorganism research

program in the 1800s. Together with Theobald Smith, he Salmonella typhi

found Salmonella in hogs that succumbed to the disease

known as hog cholera. under microscope

Arnold Bennett, an English novelist, died in 1932 of typhoid, two months after
Funfact :
drinking a glass of water in a Paris hotel to prove it was safe.