Hello and welcome to my Victorian nightmare. I'm your host, Genevieve Mannion, and I'm here to talk about mysterious deaths, morbid fascinations, disturbing stories, and otherwise spooky events from the Victorian era. Because to me, there's just something especially intriguing, creepy, and oddly comforting

about horror and mayhem from the 19th century.

So, listener discretion is advised.

Hi, friends. Thank you so much for joining me for my fifth podcast. I really appreciate that despite how terrible all this information is, you keep joining me. Much obliged. I do have to apologize, though, because today I've got a little birdie outside my window and my audio editing skills just simply cannot contend with his gusto.

So from time to time, not the whole time, but time to time.

You may hear my little co-host.

There's nothing I can do.

I'm a vampire, not an audio engineer.

I am trying, though.

I'm trying to get better.

New microphone, et cetera.

For the time being, though, Thank you very much for your understanding.

Today, we're going to dive into the life and times of a Ms. Mary Mallon,

otherwise known as Typhoid Mary. Much to her chagrin. Believe it or not, she wasn't too

fond of the nickname.

She was born on September 23rd in 1869, but she lived almost to see the beginning of the Second World War in 1938.

She died after being held in an asylum on North Brother Island in New York for almost 30 years of forced quarantine. I'm going to discuss how she

came to find herself there. I'm also going to dip into the dark history of the asylum where she

stayed, and we're going to talk a little bit about typhoid itself, the unhelpful ways they try to

treat it, and some other fun disease trivia, like, for example,

between 2 and 4% of folks who contract typhoid, otherwise known as entic fever or typhoid fever,

will go on to be chronic carriers of the germ even after treatment.

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