• Typhoid Mary: Original Super-Spreader?

  • Jan 27 2025
  • Length: 44 mins
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Typhoid Mary: Original Super-Spreader?

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  • Mary Mallon aka "Typhoid Mary" is a macabre figure who spread disease and death everywhere she went. But there's a lot more depth and humanity to Mary's history than this. She's a someone who is hard to resist when you get to know her (despite all the Typhoid...). Anthony Delaney tells Maddy Pelling the story.


    Edited by Tomos Delargy. Produced by Freddy Chick. Senior Producer is Charlotte Long.


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