Mary Mallon
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Sep 25, 2026
Leanne HowlettNARRATOR
Park, and Dr. Westmoreland.
Leanne HowlettNARRATOR
Mary Mallon is the name on the complaint.
Leanne HowlettNARRATOR
She is 40 years old and says she has never had typhoid fever or any other dangerous disease.
Leanne HowlettNARRATOR
She was released from the hospital last February, and since that time, she has been unable to follow her trade of cooking, and her chances of making a living have been greatly reduced, she asserts.
Leanne HowlettNARRATOR
Dr. Soper examined the food supply of the family, but here again he found nothing out of the way.
Leanne HowlettNARRATOR
He began to look for some peculiar situation and focused his suspicions on the fact that the family had changed cooks about three weeks before the fever began.
Leanne HowlettNARRATOR
Dr. Soper then began to investigate the record of Mary Mallon.
Leanne HowlettNARRATOR
He found that in 1904 she had been employed at the home of Henry Gilsey at Sands Point, Long Island.
MarcHOST
She found out who Patient Zero was.
MarcHOST
Typhoid Mary.
MarcHOST
Remember Typhoid Mary? Well, I don't
KimHOST
remember Typhoid Mary.
MarcHOST
That was a phrase used.
MarcHOST
Oh, the one person that started the typhoid pandemic was Typhoid Mary.
MarcHOST
Patient Zero.
MarcHOST
Who's that Patient Zero? She'll say it's Katy Perry because she still has it in for Katy Perry.
speaker_14PANELIST
Kublai Khan.
Justin MontemayorHOST
Typhoid Mary.
speaker_14PANELIST
Ray
Justin MontemayorHOST
Charles.
Josh ArnoldPANELIST
'Cause it also means something in Star Trek and, yeah, Khan does, there is something there.
Tom GriswoldHOST
Um, in, uh, 1869, happy birthday, Typhoid Mary.
Josh ArnoldPANELIST
Mm.
Christy LeeHOST
Mm.
Margherita VitaliHOST
La cuoca che avevano appena assunto era una donna irlandese di nome Mrs Brown e i suoi colleghi, quando è scoppiato il focolaio, scherzosamente l'hanno chiamata Mary la tifoide.
Margherita VitaliHOST
Immaginate la sorpresa di tutti quando scoprono che quella donna invece è proprio lei, è proprio Mary Mallon, che ha effettivamente ripreso in mano la sua vecchia professione ma sotto falso nome.
Margherita VitaliHOST
Mary ha infranto il patto e poi qualcuno purtroppo l'ha pagata cara.
Margherita VitaliHOST
E così il 26 marzo del 1915 Mary Mallon viene di nuovo identificata, fermata e ancora una volta arrestata.
Margherita VitaliHOST
Stavolta lei non oppone resistenza.
Margherita VitaliHOST
Per la fine della giornata è di nuovo al North Brother Island, la sua prigione, il suo cottage.
Drake TollHOST
Case zero of typhoid? Who is it?
Addie BatesPANELIST
You've never heard of Typhoid Mary? Oh, yeah, yeah.
Pete SouzaHOST
I have.
Pete SouzaHOST
I have.
Cassie DelaneyGUEST
She's, she's a hero of mine.
Cassie DelaneyGUEST
I once dressed up as a sexy version of Typhoid Mary for Halloween.
Cassie DelaneyGUEST
[laughs]
Sean MoncrieffHOST
[laughs] Okay.
Cassie DelaneyGUEST
So-
Sean MoncrieffHOST
Did people know it was Typhoid Mary? Did people-
Cassie DelaneyGUEST
Typhoid Mary.
Cassie DelaneyGUEST
Well, I'll tell you this, I don't know if people know much about her.
Cassie DelaneyGUEST
story.
Cassie DelaneyGUEST
Well, Mary Mallon was her original name and she was born in Cookstown in Tyrone in 1869.
Cassie DelaneyGUEST
And like so many Irish people of her generation, off she went to America as a teenager with a pair of good hands and a willingness to work.
Cassie DelaneyGUEST
And she had found her trade.
Cassie DelaneyGUEST
He checked the water, he checked the drains, he checked the milk and the shellfish and everything was clean.
Cassie DelaneyGUEST
And then he noticed that the family had changed cooks about three weeks before the outbreak and that that cook had left without a forwarding address.
Cassie DelaneyGUEST
So he went on looking for Mary Mallon and he traced her work history back through 10 years of employment and found typhoid absolutely everywhere she went in household after household.
Cassie DelaneyGUEST
It was fever after fever.
Micah FrazierHOST
You know dang well you wasn't finna win no presidential election in 1838.
Micah FrazierHOST
1869, Mary Mallon cooked chicken.
Micah FrazierHOST
or a cook and typhoid carrier known as Typhoid Mary.
Micah FrazierHOST
She is believed to have infected at least 57 people and the first person in the U.S. to be identified as an asymptomatic carrier.
Tracy V. WilsonHOST
This is from our listener Kristen.
Tracy V. WilsonHOST
She mentions that this is, uh, from the behind the scenes where we were talking about Mary Mallon but she's talking about a thing I specifically mentioned.
Tracy V. WilsonHOST
[laughs]
Holly FreyHOST
[laughs]
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