Sentences with phrase «of typhoid mary»

In a surprisingly sympathetic tone, Bartoletti sheds some light on the sensational story of Typhoid Mary, debunks misconceptions, and raises provocative questions about public health and privacy.

So what do you do if your office contains the emotional equivalent of Typhoid Mary?

Not exact matches

The man responsible for the contagion — the Typhoid Mary of the epidemic, as it were — is 54 - year - old Art McKee, the director of the Museum of Sunken Treasure in the Florida Keys.

Average parents steer clear of you — they assume you don't vaccinate, so your baby is an infant Typhoid Mary.

Not so Michael Gove, who has become the Typhoid Mary of the Commons.

David Cameron joins Nick Clegg and Ed Miliband on the backbenches — but all steer clear of Michael Gove, the Typhoid Mary of the Commons

Seriously, maybe the RNC should start taking up a collection to actually get Obama, the Typhoid Mary of politics, to actively campaign for incumbent Democrats.

Had a year of repeated URTinfections carrying on for most of the year gone after our house flooded, and with a two year old Typhoid Mary carrying every kinder bug home.

Known as a carrier of the deadly typhoid fever, Mary Mallon was also a victim of civil rights violations and overly harsh treatment.

I found this historical fiction fascinating, illuminating one of history's «infamous» characters, «Typhoid Mary».

This was all such new science when they discovered Mary was a healthy «carrier» of typhoid.

With a gimlet eye, Bartoletti relates the story of Mary Mallon, better known as Typhoid Mary, examining her treatment and infamy while offering sharp analysis of public - health practices.

A bold, mesmerizing novel about the woman known as «Typhoid Mary,» the first known healthy carrier of typhoid fever in the burgeoning metropolis of early twentieth century NeTyphoid Mary,» the first known healthy carrier of typhoid fever in the burgeoning metropolis of early twentieth century Netyphoid fever in the burgeoning metropolis of early twentieth century New York.

Terrible Typhoid Mary: A True Story of the Deadliest Cook in America.

The name Typhoid Mary lives on, but those of George Soper, Sara Josephine Baker, and Mary Mallon are relatively unknown.

You alternately like, hate and feel sorry for Mary who, although a smart woman, can not accept the fact that she is a healthy carrier of typhoid.

Fever is told from Mary's point of view and you get a real sense of who she was and how being labeled a typhoid carrier affected her.

Zeroing in on two islands in the East River — the quietly residential Roosevelt Island squeezed between Queens and Manhattan and the unpopulated North Brother Island, former home to Riverside Hospital and the infamous Typhoid Mary — the two videos in this program hover between historical biographies of places enmeshed within the fabric of a vast megalopolis and cloistered narrative fictions woven as islands of their own.

For four days last week Yahoo's European servers were the equivalent of a cyber Typhoid Mary, spreading disease to anyone who came near.

Android security is so bad that security professionals are now starting to compare it with Windows, the operating system produced by a company that has often been called the Typhoid Mary of the Internet.