Deadly
Subtitle: the search for Typhoid Mary
By: Julie Chibbaro ; illustrated by Jean-Marc Superville Sovak.
Contributors: Superville Sovak, Jean-Marc, ill.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780689857386
Subjects: Typhoid Mary, -- d. 1938 -- Fiction; Typhoid fever -- Fiction; Sex role -- Fiction; Epidemiology -- Fiction; Interpersonal relations -- Fiction; Diaries -- Fiction; New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1898-1951 -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
Description: In the early nineteen-hundreds, sixteen-year-old Prudence Galewski leaves school to take a job assisting the head epidemiologist at New York's Department of Health and Sanitation, investigating the intriguing case of "Thyphoid Mary," a seemingly healthy woman who is infecting others with typhoid fever. Includes a historical note by the author.