Terrible Typhoid Mary: the True Story of the Deadliest Cook in America by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
This real life account gives many sides to the story of an Irish immigrant cook in the early 1900s who unknowingly spread the deadly disease among her New York employers. It covers the flurry in the press over her story and the fight to detect the causes of typhoid fever and eliminate it.
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The Park School ~ Summer Reading 2018
Terrible Typhoid Mary: the True Story of the Deadliest Cook in America by Susan Campbell Bartoletti (Autobiography/Biography, Non-Fiction biography nonfiction for Grade/s7, 8)