The famous symptomless carrier of Typhoid Fever, Mary Mallon, never felt the effects of the fever, but never recovered from a medical system that didn’t know how to treat a carrier of the disease.
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Sources:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3959940/
http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/typhoid-fever/basics/symptoms/con-20028553
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https://www.britannica.com/biography/Typhoid-Mary
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