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    A special episode from our colleagues at NPR's history podcast Throughline.

    When a cook who carried typhoid fever showed no symptoms and refused to stop working, authorities forcibly quarantined her for nearly three decades. Was she a perfect villain? Or a woman scapegoated because of her background?

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    © NPRLength 43 min3 July 2020ScienceFactsEducationalUSAEpisodic

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    Introducing Short Wave

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    11+ScienceFactsEducationalUSAEpisodic3 July 2020© NPR

    A special episode from our colleagues at NPR's history podcast Throughline.

    When a cook who carried typhoid fever showed no symptoms and refused to stop working, authorities forcibly quarantined her for nearly three decades. Was she a perfect villain? Or a woman scapegoated because of her background?

    Throughline hosts Rund Abdelfatah and Ramtin Arablouei tell the story of Typhoid Mary — a story about journalism, the powers of the state, and the tension between personal freedom and public health.

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