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#TyphoidMary – now a hashtag – was a maligned immigrant who got a bum rap

  • Written by Katherine A. Foss, Professor of Media Studies, Middle Tennessee State University
Mary Mallon, after being institutionalized on Brother Island in New York.Getty/Bettman

The country’s most notable healthy carrier of a deadly disease, Mary Mallon, is back – not in person, but as a hashtag: #TyphoidMary.

In the current pandemic, people may unknowingly harbor and spread the coronavirus before they feel sick, largely...

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