Typhoid
a: 2012
b: 1870
c: 1906
The woman who worked as a cook for many wealthy families, unfortunately knowingly was infecting them with typhoid.
Who is Typhoid Mary?
Who is Mary Mallon?
a: epidemiology
b: bacteriology
c: astronomy
What was Mary's occupation (job) when she worked for the wealthy?
a. Maid
b. Personal shopper
c. cook
The best defense against the spreading of disease. p.83
What population of people did typhoid typically infect? p.79
a: middle class
b: the poor
c: the rich
He was the sanitary engineer hired by George Thompson to investigate the cause of the typhoid breakout. p.80
Who is George Soper?
To keep someone or something apart from others in order to stop the spread of disease. p.159 (glossary)
Hint: This is why Mary Mallon was sent to North Brother Island.
a: Quarantine
b: Epidemiology
c: Pandemic
a. Hawaii
b. North Brother Island
c. South Sister Island
People with dangerous or contagious diseases were sent to this island to reduce the spread of infection. p.89
a: North Brother Island
b: Long Island
c: Rhode Island
What were some of the symptoms of typhoid? p. 87
Crushing headaches, fever, diarrhea, cramps, fatigue
She was responsible for collecting specimen samples from Mary Mallon to determine whether or not she was a carrier for typhoid. p. 84
Who is Dr. Sara Josephine Baker?
An underground chamber containing sewage, usually from a house (glossary).
a: sewer
b: cesspool
c: grave
Typhoid Mary
Mary Mallon was an immigrant of this country. p.92
a: England
b: Italy
c: Ireland
What is in place today to protect people from typhoid and other contagious diseases? p.93
Working sewers
Reliable supply of clean drinking water
The name of the family Mary Mallon worked for at the beginning of the chapter. Their daughter Margaret was the first to become ill in the family. p.77
a: The Walton Family
b: The Warren Family
c: The Wilson Family
A person infected with a disease who does not have symptoms but can transmit the disease to others p.87
a: Traveler
b: Carrier
c: luggage
The city where Mary Mallon worked as a cook for the wealthy.
a. New York/Oyster Bay
b. Los Angeles
c. Washington D.C.
Immigrants to New York were housed in "rookeries" with no running water or connection to the sewer systems. What do you think happened? p.91
Diseases like typhoid were spread.
Salmonella typhi is the name of the bacteria which cause what disease? p. 87
What is typhoid?
In addition to being a doctor, Sara Josephine Baker did this part time to earn extra money. p85
b: waitress
c: Truck driver
Keeping living conditions clean in order to maintain health (glossary)
a: Sanitation
b: soap
c: bleach
After Mary Mallon was released from North Brother Island after 3 years of quarantine, she eventually returned to work as a cook in a hospital. What happened to the patients at the hospital? p.90
They became infected with typhoid.
According to this organization, 22 million people get typhoid each year and 216,000 die each year.
a: Center for Disease Control
b: World Health Organization
c: General Hospital