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patient zero (paid)

Dave Wilton

• 5 min read
B&W photo of a woman lying on a bed in a hospital ward; behind her are four other patients and a doctor examining one
Mary Mallon, a.k.a. “Typhoid Mary,” an asymptomatic carrier of typhoid fever, who as quarantined by New York health authorities in 1907–10 and 1915–38 to prevent the spread of the disease