Typhoid Mary: Reading

Typhoid Mary: Reading

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Typhoid Mary: Reading

Informative article: It gives facts about a real-life medical mistery.
What is typhoid?
What are typhoid fever symptoms?
Where Is Typhoid Fever common?
What are the causes?
What is the treatment?
How can be prevented?
What are the most common infectious diseases throughout the world today?


Typhoid is a common worldwide illness, transmitted by the ingestion of food or water contaminated with the feces of an infected person, which contain the bacterium Salmonella.
Mary Mallon didn’t want to kill people. For a long time she didn’t realize she was a killer because she was a carrier, she transferred a terrible illness .
All she knew she was that wherever she went, people got sick.
She was a cook by a wealthy family in New York. She cooked for them and they got sick for a horrible disease called typhoid.