Who was Typhoid Mary?

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Mary Mallon, who was given the nickname Typhoid Mary, was identified as a carrier of the typhoid bacterium and as the source of multiple outbreaks of typhoid fever in New York City and Long Island between 1900 and 1907. She immigrated to the United States in 1883 and made her living as a domestic servant, most often as a cook. 

When did Typhoid Mary die?

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Mary Mallon (Typhoid Mary) died on November 11, 1938, on North Brother Island, part of the Bronx, New York, where she had been quarantined on two separate occasions in her lifetime. Her second quarantine lasted 23 years and culminated in her eventual death several years after suffering a paralytic stroke.