Title: Deadly
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.
Subjects: Epidemiology, Interpersonal relations, Typhoid fever, Diaries, Sex role, History, Fiction, Children's fiction, Sex role, fiction, Interpersonal relations, fiction, Diaries, fiction, New york (n.y.), history, fiction
Places: New York (N.Y.)
People: Typhoid Mary (d. 1938)
Time periods: 1898-1951