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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

There are tough sells in the theater world — and a play about Typhoid Mary would definitely be on that list. That hasn’t stopped Theatre in the Round Players from tackling one of the most infamous ...