Episode 19: "Typhoid Mary" Mallon

 

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Often called the "Killer Cook", Mallon spread Typhoid Fever through upper class New York in the early 1900s. We take a look into Mallon's life and what contact tracing was like 120 years ago.

 

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Mary Mallon

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Mary in hospital

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Episode Sources:

• CDC. (2021). Typhoid Fever and Paratyphoid Fever

• Marineli, F., Tsoucalas, F., Karamanou, M., & Androutsos, G. (2013). Mary Mallon (1869-1938) and the history of typhoid fever. Annals of Gastroenterology. 26(2).

• MayoClinic.org. (2020). Typhoid Fever. 

• National Geographic “Typhoid Mary’s tragic tale exposed the health impacts of ‘superspreaders’ Nina Strochlic

• Ochs, R. (2007) “Dinner with Typhoid Mary” Newsday Inc. 

• Wikipedia (2022). Mary Mallon. 

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Episode 18: New Year, New Fear

 

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It's 2023! Back in 2020 we thought this day would never come. It was the end of the world wasn’t it? But we survived with all of our toilet paper stocks intact. Somehow. Come explore past and present theories about the end of the world!

Episode Sources:

• Wikipedia
• Scientificamerican.com
• Nationalgeographic.org
• Worldhistory.org
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