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To: libbylu

typhoid mary was a cook...and just about everywhere she worked got it...asymptomatic carrier.


7 posted on 10/16/2014 9:05:14 PM PDT by rolling_stone (1984)
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To: rolling_stone

I may be wrong but I think she was a cook for 7 families. Of those 7, 3 families came down with Typhoid and I believe 3 people died from her Typhoid including a child. I could be wrong. It makes me wonder what spared the others; strong immune system? Body chemistry? Who knows.


12 posted on 10/16/2014 9:24:44 PM PDT by Patriot Babe
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