Handwashing and Typhoid Mary

What Does Handwashing Have to Do

With Typhoid Fever…Everything!

Typhoid fever is an infectious disease caused by salmonella typhi, a strictly human pathogen.   It multiplies in the small intestine and is excreted in feces. Contamination is carried to others through compromised fecal matter's coming into contact with food or water (from infected fecal matter's leaching into ground water sources). 

• Fact :  The simple act of handwashing before handling food would stop the spread of the typhoid germ salmoella typhi
• Handwashing after handling food is also important

       Typhoid Symptoms:

·        sudden and prolonged fever that causes patients' temperatures to rise to 104° or 105°F

·        Powerful headaches

·        gut-wrenching nausea

·        loss of appetite

·        victims develop bad coughs, sore throats, hoarseness, diarrhea, skin rashes, and abdominal pain

                            Mary Mallon, Better Known as Typhoid Mary

Facts

•      Mary Mallon, born in 1869, an Irish immigrants who came to the United States in search of a  better life at age 15
• earned her living as a cook in working for wealthy families
• came to the attention of the authorities in 1906 when members of a household on Long Island all became ill with typhoid
• Mary had moved on and disappeared for a time while investigators learned that typhoid occurred in other places where she had worked

• It was determined that Mary was contaminating people with typhoid and when they caught her in 1907, she was detained in Riverside Hospital on North Brother Island until 1910
• Mary was released after she was taught “proper hygiene” and ordered to never work on the food industry again
• Mary was found working in a hospital kitchen in 1915 and was then sent back to North Brother Island for the last 23 years of her life
• Mary died at age 69

                  Mary Mallon "Typhoid Mary"

                   the Subject of Urban Legend

False:   Mary Mallon, or Typhoid Mary, as she was known, was responsible for the deaths of thousands of people.Not True!

• Fact:  Athorities attributed 33 cases of typhoid fever to Mary Mally and three deaths.

   

                     Handwashing and Typhoid Today 

Today, handwashing is still the first line of defense against disease germs like typhoid.  Fortunately, with today's anti-biotics, typhoid fever can be cured.

"the disease is most commonly transmitted through poor hygiene habits and public sanitation conditions. Public education campaigns encouraging people to wash their hands after toileting and before handling food are an important component in controlling spread of the disease" Wikipedia

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