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Typhoid fever spreaded 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 1900s "7 families of 22 people
infected including 1 girl
Typhoid fever was a disease said to
only attacked mostly poor urban who had DIED"
communities.
George Soper, a freelance
In 1883, Mary Mallon immigrated from Ireland to sanitary engineer,
New York City and started cooking for wealthy investigated the case and
families and THEY GOT SICK. In 1903, she moved to put the pieces together
Oyster Bay and caused another.
from Mary's history
employment.
POSITIVE test
Her feces was tested and later she Mary was undeniably a
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 are 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, English novelist, died in 1932 of typhoid, two months after
Funfact :
drinking a glass of water in Paris to prove it was safe.
