The Most Dangerous Woman in America
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Description: Companion site to the NOVA television program that explores the complex case of Mary Mallon, also known as Typhoid Mary.
NOVA | The Most Dangerous Woman in America | PBS Read an impassioned letter Mary Mallon wrote in 1909, when she petitioned the courts for her release. An historian argues that public health officials should share the blame for Mallon's behavior.
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| Page title: | NOVA | The Most Dangerous Woman in America | PBS |
| Keywords: | city, communicable, cook, cooking, disease, East River, epidemiologist, epidemiology, Ernst J. Lederle, George Soper, immigrant, immigration, Irish, Josephine Baker, Judith Walzer Leavitt, Long Island, Mary Mallon, New York, official, Oyster Bay, policy, public health, quarantine, typhoid, Typhoid Mary, science, NOVA, education, teacher, resource, classroom, public, television, PBS |
| Description: | Visit the companion Web site to the NOVA program The Most Dangerous Woman in America, an exploration of the complex case of Mary Mallon, aka 'Typhoid Mary,' a turn-of-the-20th-century cook living in New York City who unwittingly infected more than 40 people with typhoid fever. |
| IP-address: | 54.242.34.5 |