With talk about asymptomatic transmission & #superspreaders with #COVID19, dug into a first & most fascinating story in public health when George Soper identified Mary Mallon as the healthy carrier of #typhoid, responsible of many outbreaks in #NYC.

link: https://www.dropbox.com/s/gen02hdeehtbp0g/Thyphoid%20Mary%201919_Page_02.jpg?dl=0

I was able to find and reconstruct the 1919 article by George Soper in Military Medicine (thanks to Google, JSTOR, others) and put it together in the PDF link above for your enjoyment and consideration!

Here are some excerpts from this article which I found particularly amusing.

And if you want to be a hard-core historian of medicine, here is the link to Dr. Soper's original report in @JAMA_current from 1907!

JAMA link: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/463876

PDF: https://www.dropbox.com/s/n41tb69dw37lmok/jama_xlviii_24_002d.pdf?dl=0