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Mary Mallon (1869-1938) and the history of typhoid fever This is Mary Mallon, aka Typhoid Mary, A photographed after being institutionalised on based Brother island in New York, 1909. She is the first recorded asymtomatic carrier of typhoid, a bacterial infection that is spreading by eating food or drinking water that has been contaminated with the feces of an infected person.  Mallon work as a cook in New York City from 1900 to 1907. During this time, she infected 51 people. One family hired a typhoid researcher by the name of George Soper who believed Mallon was the reasons for the outbreaks. He was able to finally track her down and notified her that she may be unknowingly spreading the disease. When he asked if he could collect her urine and stool samples, Mallon refused. Soper even told her that he will write a book and give her all the loyalties. She still refused. In 1907, Mallon was forced into quarantine at a hospital on north Brother Island in New York, located on the East ri