In March of 1907, a cook by the name of Mary Mallon was arrested in New York, charged with being “a typhoid carrier and a menace to the community.” Although she had no symptoms, she was a carrier of ...

The public memory of persons renowned for deeds of notoriety seems to place no boundaries on the exaggeration of their infamous acts. Just as the body counts attributed to many celebrated outlaws of ...

Classified as a mutant (as in, she could be an X-Man, if she tried) with dissociative identity disorder, or DID, Typhoid Mary has three distinct personalities: Mary Walker, her “real” identity, a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Oct. 17—Cheyenne's Central High School theater program is retuning in full capacity with a surprisingly relevant and intimate ...

Typhoid fever is a disease that, in the United States, is synonymous with Mary Mallon—a woman better known as Typhoid Mary, who infected New Yorkers with typhoid in the early 1900s. But typhoid is not ...

Iron Fist will have his hands full in the second season of his Netflix series. As Danny Rand returns in Season 2 of Marvel’s Iron Fist, he’ll have to square off against the villain known as “Typhoid ...

Typhoid is a very nasty disease. Today, it still attacks some 17 million people in poor countries each year, and kills about 600,000 of them. Back before antibiotics such as chloramphenicol, typhoid ...

Mary Beth Keane's fascinating historical novel Fever re-creates the sadly tragic life of Irish immigrant Mary Mallon, whom history will forever demonize as Typhoid Mary. You've probably heard the term ...