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Q. The name of Mary Mallon was associated with

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Mary Mallon was born in 1869 in Ireland and emigrated to the US. She had worked in a variety of domestic positions for wealthy families prior to settling into her career as a cook. As a healthy carrier of Salmonella typhi her nickname of "Typhoid Mary" had become synonymous with the spread of disease.