page_title: Mary Mallon
section_title: Legacy
hierarchical_section_title: Mary Mallon / Legacy
caption_attribution_description: Typhoid carrier. Food pollution. &quot;In this manner the famous 'Typhoid Mary' infected family after family.&quot;
context_page_description: Mary Mallon, also known as Typhoid Mary, was an Irish-born cook believed to have infected 53 people, three of whom died, with typhoid fever, and the first person in the United States identified as an asymptomatic carrier of the disease. Because she persisted in working as a cook, by which she exposed others to the disease, she was twice forcibly quarantined by authorities, and died after a total of nearly three decades in isolation.
caption: A historical poster warning against acting like Typhoid Mary
exif: {"Image Orientation": "Horizontal (normal)", "Image ExifOffset": "38", "EXIF ColorSpace": "sRGB", "EXIF ExifImageWidth": "2081", "EXIF ExifImageLength": "2759"}