Leavitt organized her book to illustrate various issues through multiple, varied perspectives like the public health establishment, the media, the law, and Mary herself. Mallon was the first-ever individual who had been labeled as a chronic carrier of the typhoid fever bacillus in the United States. By contaminating the food that she cooks for others, Mary had spread the disease.
Strangely, Mallon herself had never suffered from typhoid fever. The book namely “Typhoid Mary: Captive to the Public’s Health” was written by Judith Walzer Leavitt in 1996 and was published by Beacon Press located in Boston which vividly illustrates Mary’s ordeal.Ī New York-based sanitary engineer named George Soper was first identified that Mary was the cause of the outbreak of malaria in New York is due to his epidemiologic detective work.
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