Typhoid Mary is an iconic figure in U.S. medical history. Her real name was Mary Mallon and she was a Irish Immigrant. Medical investigators tracked her down in a house where she was working as a cook. They discovered that 6 of the 8 homes in which she had worked had fatalities from typhoid.
She was a carrier for typhoid but did not contract the disease.
She was placed in isolation in a hospital for 3 years and was only released after a legal battle and agreeing to not cook again. Unfortunately she began cooking again and more people became sick. She was forced into quarantine on North Brother Island outside New York City and lived out the rest of her life there...never getting sick from Typhoid.
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