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Typhoid Mary   /tˈaɪfɔɪd mˈɛri/   Listen
Typhoid Mary

noun
1.
United States cook who was an immune carrier of typhoid fever and who infected dozens of people (1870-1938).  Synonyms: Mallon, Mary Mallon.





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"Typhoid Mary" Quotes from Famous Books



... even got, so to speak, jabbed the first time," Morris observed, "and the way they avoid Liberty Bond salesmen, Abe, you would think that such a salesman was a sort of Liberty Bond Typhoid Mary and would infect them tightwads with a disease where they were liable to break out all over ...
— Potash and Perlmutter Settle Things • Montague Glass


Words linked to "Typhoid Mary" :   Mallon, carrier, Mary Mallon, immune carrier


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