Typhoid Mary and the Vaccine Industry Tradition of Promoting Hate

Mary Malone "emigrated to the US in 1884" yet it was not till 1901 that Typhoid struck a family she was working for. Just from this we can tell Mary was unlikely to have started the epidemic, but where did it come from? Early history suggests it had been in the US since the 1600's.

"The first effective vaccine for typhoid was developed by Almroth Edward Wright and was introduced for military use in 1896." but it must be Mary's fault, not anyone else's fault? George Sober ignored his job as a sanitation engineer and left his undone work, to stock just one of the thousands of possible carriers. Over a thousand people are said to have died in Ithaca, around 10% leaving behind %90 of the population as possible carriers. The offender is obviously bad sanitation poop is getting into the water somehow.

Correlation does not equal causation, we are missing a huge part of this story. Did Mary really cause the 1915 outbreak that correlated to the release of the vaccine. Could the Sloane Hospital for Women in New York have caused the outbreak? Why would doctors and nurses be the ones most likely to die? Surely Mary working at a hospital would have known how to avoid contaminating food by now?

Typhoid Mary is simply a mascot being used to promote the Typhoid vaccine, much as the drag queens, of today are being exploited to promote Aids vaccine research, blacks are used to promote Ebola vaccine research, and women are used to promote cervical cancer vaccines. Maybe Clinton supporters are right, Trump may be just plain stupid to full for, the hate speech fear bull pony poop...It seems we are ready to defend, but first let us take just this moment to think of all the stupid things a person can be lead to believe.

We are flawed, but let us learn logic and forgiveness together.

"emigrated to the US in 1884"
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3959940/



"The first effective vaccine for typhoid was developed by Almroth Edward Wright and was introduced for military use in 1896."
http://www.news-medical.net/health/Typhoid-Fever-History.aspx

"The story behind a deadly typhoid epidemic in Ithaca"
http://blog.syracuse.com/cny/2011/01/the_story_behind_a_deadly_typhoid_epidemic_in_ithaca.html


In Germany, Richard Pfeiffer and Wilhelm Kolle in 1896 demonstrated that inoculation with killed typhoid bacteria resulted in human immunity against typhoid fever.
http://www.historyofvaccines.org/content/articles/typhoid-fever

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