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Typhoid Mary: Original Super-Spreader?
The story of 'Typhoid Mary'. Was she a one-woman pandemic?
Mary Mallon aka "Typhoid Mary" is a macabre figure who spread disease and death everywhere she went. But there's a lot more depth and humanity to Mary's history than this. She's a someone who is hard to resist when you get to know her (despite all the Typhoid...). Anthony Delaney tells Maddy Pelling the story.
