We probably don’t want to take a page from her cookbook, but Mary Mallon, better known as Typhoid Mary, does demonstrate the importance of quarantine…and always washing your hands, of course.
Medical Program: Typhoid Mary’s Recipe for Disaster
Typhoid Mary’s Recipe for Disaster
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- Host: Marshall Miller
What’s cooking? Best not to ask Mary Mallon, who had an unwashed hand in several typhoid outbreaks during the early 20th century.
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