Patient Zero, Chapter 4
This person was an Irish-born American cook believed to have infected between 51 and 122 people with typhoid fever.
Who is Mary Mallon, or Typhoid Mary?
A communicable disease with symptoms of fever, diarrhea, prostration, headache, and intestinal inflammation and caused by a bacterium (Salmonella typhi).
What is typhoid?
This is the name of the pandemic of 1665
What is The Black Death or Bubonic Plague?
This caused the spread of the Bubonic Plague.
What is fleas on rats?
This is the setting of the cholera epidemic.
What is London's Soho district in 1854?
This is the job that Mary Mallon took that resulted in her being quarantined from 1915 to 1938.
What is a cook in a maternity hospital?
She worked in a maternity clinic. At that time, 10 percent of the women who came to the hospital died during childbirth.
What does maternity mean?
A. relating to hospitals
B. relating to motherhood
C. relating to death
D. relating to children
What is "B. relating to motherhood."
This person was the first victim of the bubonic plague.
Who is Goodwoman Phillips?
This was the setting of the epidemic of bubonic plague.
What is London's St. Giles in the Fields district?
This person was the first patient to die of cholera.
Who is Baby Frances Lewis?
This is the setting of the story.
What is New York around the turn of the 20th century?
Fecal, blood, and urine samples taken from Mary Mallon confirmed what Soper suspected.
What does fecal mean?
A. related to human waste
B. related to felines
C. related to money
D. related to IDs or identification
What is "A. relating to human waste"
This person studied the epidemic in London and began to predict the plague.
Who is John Graunt?
The Bubonic Plague started in this time of year.
What is the winter 1665?
This is another word for a disease that causes a large number of people to be ill.
What is pestilence?
This person is an American sanitation engineer best known for discovering Mary Mallon, also known as Typhoid Mary.
Who is George Soper?
This is the nickname for a person who intentionally or not spreads disease.
What is Typhoid Mary?
This is a process used to secure the spread of a disease, like the Plague or typhoid fever.
What is quarantine?
This is what Goodwoman Phillips flung out the door.
What is the dead rat?
This is the disease that caused American illnesses in 1900.
What is yellow fever?
This is the island that Mary Mallon was sent to quarantine.
What is North Brother Island?
Mary Mallon was asymptomatic. She seemed perfectly healthy. You wouldn't think she had typhoid.
What does asymptomatic mean?
A. producing or showing symptoms.
B. someone who has typhoid
C. someone who doesn't have typhoid
D. producing or showing no symptoms.
What is "D. producing or showing no symptoms."?
This person is the first carrier of an epidemic.
Who is Typhoid Mary or Mary Mallen?
This was the first victim.
Who is Goodwoman Phillips?
This is where Sarah poured the water she used for soaking dirty sheets and diapers.
What is a cesspool?