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<p>Page créée avec « He believed she was a carrier of typhoid and had caused many people to become sick; some had even died. Mallon retorted that she felt healthy. She cursed at this intrusi... »</p> <p><b>Nouvelle page</b></p><div>He believed she was a carrier of <br /> typhoid and had caused many people to become sick; some had even died. Mallon <br /> retorted that she felt healthy. She cursed at this intrusive man, who insisted on collecting <br /> blood and urine and stool samples, and she advanced toward him with a carving knife. <br /> <br /> Soper fled the scene, but the epidemiologist soon pursued Mallon again with the aid of an <br /> assistant. The two men followed her to a friend’s tenement house. Again enraged, she <br /> frightened the men away. Their next strategy of sending a female doctor was also met <br /> with resistance. In the end, the doctor reappeared with police officers, more assistants, <br /> and an ambulance. Mallon lunged at her visitors with a kitchen fork and ran away, only to <br /> be discovered hours later when her dress poked through a closet door. The resistant Mary <br /> Mallon was carted off to a hospital with one aid sitting on her chest! <br /> <br /> At the hospital, suspicions of Mallon’s typhoid carrier status was confirmed. To avoid <br /> contaminating other people, health officials banished her to a cottage on a hospital island <br /> in New York’s East River. (The property had been designed years ago to quarantine <br /> smallpox patients.)<br /> <br /> Had Mallon known that she was infecting people with typhoid? During her employment <br /> as a cook on Long Island that summer, eleven people in her household came down with <br /> typhoid fever. An investigator researching her employment history found that typhoid <br /> outbreaks coincided with most of her previous jobs. Between 1900 and 1907, she had <br /> taken seven jobs and apparently infected 22 people. Sufferers endured about a month of <br /> high fever, upset stomach, headache, and rash. One girl died of fever shortly after Mallon <br /> came to work her family. <br /> <br /> Still, Mallon claimed to believe she was unfairly accused. She said she didn’t understand <br /> how she could be related to all the sickness surrounding her when she herself seemed <br /> healthy. In 1909 – after spending two years on the island -- she sued the health <br /> department, saying that stool samples she’d sent to a private lab tested negative. <br /> However, the judge ruled in favor of the government, who countered her claim with a <br /> series of mostly positive tests. Mallon was returned to the quarantine island with only a <br /> dog for companionship. <br /> <br /> Better news came for Mary Mallon in 1910 when a new health commissioner reached a <br /> different decision: Mallon would be set free, provided that she did not work as a cook and <br /> promised to always take hygienic precautions. Mallon agreed and next found <br /> employment laundering clothing. The terms of her release required her reporting to health <br /> officials every three months.<br /> <br /> For some reason, however, Mallon did not report to authorities as instructed. She <br /> eventually went back to working as a cook! Perhaps she could not survive on lower <br /> wages. Maybe she didn’t believe that a healthy person could really infect people, or <br /> maybe she had malicious intentions all along. <br /> <br /> In any case, five years after her release from the island, New York's Sloane Hospital for <br /> Women suffered a typhoid fever outbreak that resulted in two deaths. Co-workers joked <br /> that Typhoid Mary worked among them, but nobody suspected this was truly the case. <br /> Investigators turned to a newly-hired cook who called herself Mrs. .[http://www.projectwedding.com/blog_entries/534343 When Buying Small Business Accounting Software], [http://www.zone-d.de/blog/view/39508/why-a-university-education Why a University Education?], [http://www.iamsport.org/pg/bookmarks/hoe2clef/read/29368856/beauty-how-a-spa-visit-can-help-you-in-more-ways-than-one Beauty: How a Spa Visit Can Help You In More Ways Than One]</div>

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