Starting in 1904, Mary Mallon, a.k.a. Typhoid Mary, an Irish cook who immigrated to NY City, is believed to have infected 53 people with typhoid fever—three of them died—and was the first asymptomatic ...

Discussion around the historical figure Mary Mallon—also known as Typhoid Mary—has picked up on Twitter after a Harvard professor published a controversial tweet. On Tuesday, Martin Kulldorff, a ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. BALTIMORE -- Even as COVID-19 continues its rampage across the globe, an older health nemesis continues a more clandestine and ...

In a change of pace from her starring role on Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale, Elisabeth Moss is going from a depressing tale set in the near future to a depressing tale set in the recent past. She’s ...

Even as COVID-19 continues its rampage across the globe, an older health nemesis continues a more clandestine and increasingly deadly spread. Typhoid infects an estimated 11 million people a year and ...