Deadly Diseases: Fatal Fever : Tracking Down Typhoid Mary (Hardcover)

from pataustin

Good nonfiction that will grab readers and not let them go often does so from the first paragraph: "Early on a damp March morning in 1907, Mary Mallon answered the knock at the servants' entrance of a New York brownstone house. She took one look at the visitors and lunged at them with her sharp f...

from Jessie_Bear

One of the most fascinating and infamous women of her time, Mary Mallon a.k.a. Typhoid Mary spread typhoid fever wherever she went, unknowingly contaminating the food she prepared as a hired cook. Fatal Fever excellently explains the atmosphere of urban widespread disease that could lead a franti...

from acargile

Fatal Fever: Tracking Down Typhoid Mary by Gail Jarrow tells the story of the famous Typhoid Mary. The "germ detective," Dr. George Soper spent his life studying sanitation and how disease spread. He had become famous after the Galveston hurricane of 1900 when he kept the devastated Galveston fro...

from pataustin

Good nonfiction that will grab readers and not let them go often does so from the first paragraph: "Early on a damp March morning in 1907, Mary Mallon answered the knock at the servants' entrance of a New York brownstone house. She took one look at the visitors and lunged at them with her sharp f...

from Jessie_Bear

One of the most fascinating and infamous women of her time, Mary Mallon a.k.a. Typhoid Mary spread typhoid fever wherever she went, unknowingly contaminating the food she prepared as a hired cook. Fatal Fever excellently explains the atmosphere of urban widespread disease that could lead a franti...