Gordon Forgey

Remember Mary Mallon?

Perhaps you’ll recognize her moniker: Typhoid Mary.

She was a carrier of typhoid fever although she never was ill with the disease.

Mary worked as a cook in the early 1900s. Although she showed no symptoms of the disease, she infected others.

Once the link between her comings and goings and new cases of the disease was recognized, she was warned against working as a cook. She refused to accept the prohibition and was locked up for three years. Released, she changed cities and her name to avoid the authorities.

The disease followed her, and she was locked away again, spend...