El curioso caso de Mary Mallon

Like so many Irish people, Mary Mallon had arrived in the New World fleeing the famine that was ravaging her homeland. In a New York poised to become the world's greatest metropolis, she worked day and night in unsanitary conditions, earning a well-deserved reputation as a skilled and efficient cook—a reputation that led her to work for some of the city's wealthiest families. How, then, did she come to be branded "the most dangerous woman in America" ​​and banished to a small island far removed from the Big Apple?