Mary Mallon, who later became known as Typhoid Mary, was born on September 23, 1869, in Cookstown, Co Tyrone. Mary Mallon, a cook from Co Tyrone, was suspected to be at the center of a Typhoid epidemic in New York. She was even described as the most dangerous woman in America.
Many old buildings at a New York City hospital are in ruins, but it played a key role in the battle against tuberculosis, which killed 5.6 million people in the U.S. in the first half of the 20th century.
Many people have heard the story of Typhoid Mary, the healthy woman who spread disease everywhere she went. However, almost no one knows the story of Mary
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