The Healthy Cook Who Made Everyone Sick (Typhoid Mary)

There is a woman hiding in an outhouse, in the snow, behind a house that is not hers. She is a cook. As far as she knows, she has never been sick a day in her life. That is exactly why New York is hunting her. This is the story of Mary Mallon, told from her side: the families, the engineer who traced her, the hunt, the island, and why she never believed any of it. 0:00 The outhouse in the snow 1:04 The first house 1:49 Who she was 2:49 Long Island, 1906 3:57 The ice cream 4:28 Seven houses 5:04 Park Avenue, winter 1907 5:48 The stairs 6:30 The hunt 7:46 The white room 9:03 The island 9:54 Free, on one condition 10:24 Back to the stove 11:05 The hospital for women 11:47 The island years 12:41 The others 13:17 Back to the outhouse Main source: George A. Soper, "The Curious Career of Typhoid Mary", Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine 15(10), 1939, pages 698 to 712. The count of other healthy carriers: Marineli and others, Annals of Gastroenterology 26(2), 2013, pages 132 to 134.