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January 10, 2007
February 26: Typhoid Mary
In August of 1906, a mysterious cluster of typhoid fever cases erupted in a very unlikely setting--a summer house in wealthy Oyster Bay, Long Island. Typhoid fever, a bacterial disease spread by poor sanitation, was associated with slums and poverty, not wealthy communities. About 10 percent of those infected, died.
The owner hired a civil engineer, (George Soper) to discover the source of the disease, and the engineer soon focused on the new cook, Mary Mallon. In tracing her employment history, Soper found that typhoid outbreaks followed her wherever she was employed.
Website about the Documentary
What is Typhoid Fever?
Articles:
The Sad and Tragic Life of Typhoid Mary [link]
Books:
About Mary
Typhoid Mary : an urban historical / by Anthony Bourdain.
Hodges Library / Stacks: RA644.T8 B68 2001
Typhoid Mary : captive to the public's health / Judith Walzer Leavitt.
Hodges Library / Stacks: RA644.T8 L43 1996
The ballad of Typhoid Mary / J.F. Federspiel ; translated by Joel Agee.
Hodges Library / Stacks: PT2666.E37 B313 1983
Typhoid fever, its nature, mode of spreading, and prevention / William Budd.
Hodges Library / Stacks: RA644.T8 B8 1977
Fighting for life [by] S. Josephine Baker, M.D.
Hodges Library / Stacks: HV28.B3 A3
Treatment of Immigrants:
Erin's daughters in America : Irish immigrant women in the nineteenth century / Hasia R. Diner.
Hodges Library / Stacks: H31 .J62 v.101 no.2
Fit to be citizens? : public health and race in Los Angeles, 1879-1939 / Natalia Molina.
Hodges Library / Stacks: RA448.4 .M65 2006
Silent travelers : germs, genes, and the "immigrant menace" / Alan M. Kraut.
Hodges Library / Stacks: RA448.5.I44 K73 1994
Spread of Disease:
Epidemics and pandemics : their impacts on human history / J. N. Hays.
Hodges Library / Stacks: RA649 .H293 2005
Mapping epidemics : a historical atlas of disease / Brent H. Hoff and Carter Smith III ; Charles H. Calisher
Ag-Vet. Med Library / Stacks: RA792 .H64 2000
Medicine:
Launching the antibiotic era : personal accounts of the discovery and use of the first antibiotics / edited by Carol
Hodges Library / Stacks: RM267 .L38 1990
Management of multiple drug-resistant infections / edited by Stephen H. Gillespie.
Hodges Library / Stacks: QR177 .M36 2004
Medicine at the border : disease, globalization and security, 1850 to the present / edited by Alison Bashford
Hodges Library / Stacks: RA441 .M44 2006
Working through an outbreak : pandemic flu planning and continuity of operations : hearing before the Committee on Government Reform, House of Representatives, One Hundred Ninth Congress, second session, May 11, 2006.
Pandemic planning update II [electronic resource] : a report from Secretary Michael O. Leavitt.
Posted by Donna Braquet at January 10, 2007 01:39 PM