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Woman Jailed for Refusing TB Treatment or Isolation |
Many of us are familiar with the story of Mary Mallon, better known as "Typhoid Mary." She was a New York resident who around 1907 was forcibly quarantined twice by the city's health department, including for the final two decades of her life. An asymptomatic typhoid fever carrier, she infected numerous people via her job as a cook. Yet she refused to seek other employment or to accept the fact that she had a contagious illness, spurring the need for her quarantine to protect the public. |
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