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Typhoid Mary | An Invisible Menace | 1

2025/6/18
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George Thompson: 作为房主，我非常担心牡蛎湾的伤寒爆发。疫情发生后，我的房子成了社区的弃儿，这给我带来了巨大的困扰。我配合卫生调查，提供了所有信息，包括关于新来的厨师玛丽的信息。她来后不久就爆发了疫情，之后她就消失了，这让我感到非常不安。我希望卫生部门能够尽快找到她，查明疫情的真正原因，恢复社区的平静。 George Soper: 作为卫生工程师，我负责调查牡蛎湾的伤寒疫情。通过调查，我发现厨师玛丽·马龙与疫情爆发存在关联。她曾在多个家庭工作，而这些家庭都爆发过伤寒。虽然她本人没有生病迹象，但我怀疑她是健康的伤寒携带者。因此，我必须找到她，进行医学检测，以确认她是否携带伤寒细菌。这不仅是为了查明疫情的真相，更是为了保护更多人的生命安全。我深感责任重大，必须尽快采取行动。

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A typhoid fever outbreak hits a wealthy family's vacation home in Oyster Bay. The investigation focuses on the recently vanished Irish cook, Mary, who is suspected of being a carrier.
  • Typhoid outbreak in a wealthy family's Oyster Bay vacation home
  • Cook, Mary, vanished after the outbreak
  • Clean water, suggesting another source of infection

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In the fall of 1906, a mysterious outbreak of typhoid fever struck a wealthy New York family vacationing in Oyster Bay, Long Island. Suspicion soon fell on the family's Irish cook, who had vanished after the first cases emerged. Desperately hoping to prevent another outbreak of typhoid, city health officials began a frustrating hunt for the woman, Mary Mallon – soon labeled in the press as ""Typhoid Mary."" 

Mary's case would ultimately spark a fierce debate over the government's authority to isolate and detain people it considered a danger to society, pitting civil liberties against the demands of public safety.

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