Intrepid explorer Lourie tackles the “Father of Waters,” the Mighty Mississippi, traveling by canoe, bicycle, foot, and car, 2,340 miles from the headwaters of the great river at the Canadian border to the river’s end in the Gulf of Mexico. (timeline, source notes, bibliography, index) More than a chronological account, this exploration pays tribute to the power of public health measures and raises questions about the ethics of protecting the public by quarantining someone like Mallon, who sued for her freedom.Ī top-notch addition to the popular topic of deadly diseases. An unusually attractive design incorporates many photographs, such artifacts as posters and cartoons, and sidebars. Lively writing uses primary sources to relate well-chosen, sometimes-gruesome details about the disease and convey the personalities of Mallon, Baker and George Soper, a sanitary engineer who tracked down Mallon through her employment history. Chapters about finding and imprisoning Mallon alternate with those on typhoid, its symptoms, how it spread and how it was largely eradicated.

Mallon was a healthy-looking, middle-aged cook suspected of carrying typhoid bacteria and infecting those she worked for, sometimes fatally.

Josephine Baker, a New York City medical inspector, and three police officers paid a visit on Irish immigrant Mary Mallon, later known as Typhoid Mary. The book includes a new chapter about the COVID-19 pandemic, a glossary, timeline, list of well-known typhoid sufferers and victims, further resource section, author's note, and source notes.This engrossing story about Typhoid Mary relates the grim history of typhoid fever, which killed tens of thousands of Americans in the early 1900s. Young readers will be on the edges of their seats wondering what happened to Mary and the innocent typhoid victims. Read how Mary unwittingly spread deadly bacteria, the ways an epidemiologist discovered her trail of infection, and how the health department ultimately decided her fate. This engrossing story reveals the facts behind Mary Mallon, a hardworking Irish cook hired by several of New York's well-to-do families, who ultimately came to be known as Typhoid Mary. Learn about the 1907 outbreak of typhoid fever and Typhoid Mary in this book perfect to share with young readers interested in a historical perspective of the COVID-19 pandemic that is gripping the world today - including a NEW chapter YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction Award Nomineeīank Street College of Education Best Children's Books of the Year

Fatal fever by gail jarrow