Alice B. reviewed on 3/5/2014 + 3591 more book reviews

What a disaster! Typhoid Mary was an Irish Immigrant cook and within a period of a few years infected 22 people with the deadly typhoid fever. She was tracked down and isolated until she died 30 years later. As a medical professional, I do not see her as being treated unfairly. I believe that being an intelligent woman that she knew the risks Involved in cooking for others and the second time cooking in a hospital under an assumed name that she must have known that she was wrong.However, I believe that others who were carriers should have been isolated as well. It is difficult to make a judgment on this case since we do not know all the facts and many years have passed.

But this book brings up an interesting question; what do we do with drug resistant TB cases and HIV today?

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