At age fifteen, Mary Mallon emigrated from Ireland to New York City. She's an ambitious gal and is a truly talented chef. She manages to become the head chef for some of the finest families. It's just a shame that she slowly leaves a trail of deaths behind her.
A "medical engineer" manages to track her and expose her as the source of typhoid deaths. But she's hale and hearty. How can that be?
Mary has never been ill. But the bloodwork done in the early 1900s shows she has the typhoid germ within her. She is put into quarantine for years. This dramatic historic novel retells a forgotten life and you feel for our "deathly" heroine.
Cough, fever, die!
thecontemplativecat here . What a fascinating person. Her life? What must she have felt?
ReplyDeleteAnd interesting how far we’ve come in knowing about germs, but still learning
DeleteHi Joanne - I picked up this story somewhere else too ... and note the comments above ... cheers Hilary
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