NOUN | person | Typhoid Mary, Mallon, Mary Mallon | United States cook who was an immune carrier of typhoid fever and who infected dozens of people (1870-1938) |
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Meaning | United States cook who was an immune carrier of typhoid fever and who infected dozens of people (1870-1938). | |
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Synonyms | Mallon, Mary Mallon | |
Instance of | carrier, immune carrier | (medicine) a person (or animal) who has some pathogen to which he is immune but who can pass it on to others |
Spanish | Mary Mallon | |
Catalan | Mary Mallon |
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