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title: "Fatal Fever: Tracking Down Typhoid Mary (Deadly Diseases) Hardcover – Illustrated, March 10, 2015"
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# Fatal Fever: Tracking Down Typhoid Mary (Deadly Diseases) Hardcover – Illustrated, March 10, 2015

**Brand:** gail jarrow
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- **What is this?** Fatal Fever: Tracking Down Typhoid Mary (Deadly Diseases) Hardcover – Illustrated, March 10, 2015 by gail jarrow
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    The war against disease wages on!
  

*by H***E on Reviewed in the United States on June 2, 2015*

Gail Jarrow has a remarkable ability to tell a compelling story, the fact that the story is true makes it all the more interesting.  I really enjoyed her previous book, Red Madness, so I was really looking forward to reading this one.  I loved this one as well.  This book is everything that narrative nonfiction should be, a compelling story, interesting characters, and a challenging problem.  Disease has long been a source of great suffering and difficulty and it still is throughout the world.  Reading a story like this helps reveal the many who have helped fight the battle against disease, some by choice, and others like Mary Mellon, very unwillingly.Mary's story is a sad one as she was as much a victim as those she infected, at least until she deliberately chose to ignore the warnings she received when she was released.  She had the unfortunate honor of being the first healthy typhoid character identified in the United States.  As such, public health officials weren't really sure what to do with her, so they locked her up.  She wasn't treated particularly fairly considering the problem wasn't her fault.  But her refusal to accept her status as a carrier made things even worse.  The challenge of protecting the public's health versus individual rights is one that continues to be fought to this day.This book is both a fascinating individual story but also a story of the fight against a disease and the people who waged that fight.  I can recommend this book to those like myself who find such stories fascinating both the historical aspects as well as the science.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Typhoid Epedemic of 1903 in New York
  

*by S***E on Reviewed in the United States on June 15, 2016*

Factual information, well researched about the Typhoid epidemic that hit New York in 1903.  What was done to stop the spread of it.  Finding Mary Mallon, a cook and a carrier of the disease.  An account of the pivotal people that taught the city government how to clean up the drinking waters and what the cause of typhoid fever is.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    it reads like a novel
  

*by J***N on Reviewed in the United States on April 3, 2015*

Summary:  Everyone’s heard of Typhoid Mary, but who was she really?  Uncovering her identity was a medical mystery that began in the summer of 1906.  The detective is Dr. George Soper, a sanitation engineer who helped control a typhoid epidemic that swept through the town of Ithaca and Cornell University.  When a wealthy family on Long Island was sickened with typhoid, they hired Soper to figure out what had caused the outbreak.  He eventually tracked it to Mary Mellon, their former cook.  Not only that, but he was able to trace several other outbreaks to her.  The book chronicles her capture and confinement on an island off of Manhattan for most of the rest of her life. The reader will also learn about typhoid, its role in history, and how it has gradually been eliminated from most of the western world.Pros:  I had heard of typhoid and Typhoid Mary but knew nothing about it.  I was appalled to learn of the lack of sanitation in the U.S. less than a century ago.  And I had no idea that such celebrities as Abigail Adams, Wilbur Wright, and Stephen Douglas all died of typhoid.  Although this book is nonfiction, it reads like a novel.Cons:  You may find yourself looking askance at your tap water.  And you will surely nag your children more to wash their hands

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