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Typhoid Mary

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Ty·phoid Mary (t

foid

)

n.

A person from whom something undesirable or deadly spreads to those nearby.

[From the nickname of Mary Mallon.]

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Typhoid Mary - United States cook who was an immune carrier of typhoid fever and who infected dozens of people (1870-1938)

Mallon, Mary Mallon

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