Discussion around the historical figure Mary Mallon—also known as Typhoid Mary—has picked up on Twitter after a Harvard professor published a controversial tweet. On Tuesday, Martin Kulldorff, a ...

Last week, DNA sleuthing disproved a widely held belief about the HIV/AIDS epidemic: that one person single-handedly brought the illness across the Atlantic to North America. That man, a gay flight ...

Oct. 17—Cheyenne's Central High School theater program is retuning in full capacity with a surprisingly relevant and intimate production of "Typhoid Mary." The play tells the story of Mary Mallon, an ...

When his super-centrifuge machine conked out and couldn’t be repaired during the war, tousle-haired Biochemist John Vaichulis began looking around Illinois’ Manteno State Mental Hospital for some ...

There's a pandemic-related tension in this country between our personal choices and the public good. NPR's podcast Throughline has been looking at a time in history when the same thing was happening.

In the ongoing and often heated debate over imposed masking and vaccination in the face of yet another COVID-19 surge, the history of Mary Mallon — "Typhoid Mary" — is instructive. Mallon was a cook ...

Mary Mallon (Sept. 23, 1869 - Nov.11, 1938), better known as “Typhoid Mary,” was the first person in the United States identified as a carrier of the pathogen associated with typhoid fever. Choosing a ...

Thrillers have a long, honored tradition of turning germs into monsters. But from Michael Crichton's The Andromeda Strain on up, such novels have speculated about microorganisms in a way that pales ...