Typhoid Mary : captive to the public's health /
She was an Irish immigrant cook. Between 1900 and 1907, she infected twenty-two New Yorkers with typhoid fever through her puddings and cakes; one of them died. Tracked down through epidemiological detective work, she was finally apprehended as she hid behind a barricade of trashcans. To protect the...
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Boston, Massachusetts :
Beacon Press,
[1996]
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