I read the news in the newspaper that 'Covid' patients are roaming around, erasing the seal of 'Home Quarantine' by 'blocking' the phone of the municipality, and I remembered many person-incident-experiences in day-to-day medical practice.
I also remembered a historical case of the same context. A girl from a wealthy family has been diagnosed with typhoid fever on an American island. In the same week, five other people in her house showed similar symptoms.
How did the disease, which usually occurs in places with poverty and unhygienic conditions, come here? The superiors of the family called for experts.
The search for the cause of this contagious disease started. Drinking water-toilet-dirt-urine-tanks-outhouse was thoroughly searched, but the source of the infection was not found. External foods such as milk, fish, and groceries were also investigated. Many were suspected, but none of their contacts fell ill.
The local health department gave the same report, but the landlord was not satisfied. He inquired from his friends in New York City and demanded that someone send an expert, and a sanitary engineer of the health department named Dr. George Soper was admitted from a reference.
Dr. Soper reviewed the rest of the patient's examination reports, thoroughly interrogating everyone. He made a list of all of them and checked again but concluded that no one was involved.
As it was not revealed even after checking the fine links. Dr. Soper decided to go the other way. Focused on things that take ten to fourteen days before a fever strike.
Meanwhile, it was learned that a cook had come and gone. The name of the cook was 'Mary Mallon.' Soper was described as that woman, and he started an inquiry. He was told about Mary that she makes good food - is a bit unhygienic - is less talkative - is irritating.
Soper collected nearly ten years of history and geography from the people she worked for and found the truth.
There was an outbreak of typhoid in all the houses where Mary was working, but where to find her?
While tracking her, Mary worked at a place where all four of them had suddenly contracted the disease. Earlier in the day, seven people were injured in one incident. All this was done on the filth of the city.
However, Soper's work was like that of a spy. Soper heard that a young woman had died of typhoid in a family in New York and that the nurse who cared for her had fallen ill. 'She was Mary Mallon.'
Typhoid is a contagious disease caused by the bacterium Salmonella typhi. Foods and water mixed with human feces and urine cause fever when it enters the stomach. In short, contaminated water is the root cause of such infections.
In addition, people who have fever germs in their body can give you this fever as long as they have it in their body. These germs live in the gallbladder ducts of their body like a tenant or a pensioner.
‘Mary Mallon’ was one of those lifelong carriers.
For a moment, Dr. Soper could not believe that we were standing in front of the woman we have been searching for for the last few months, but his zeal and perseverance did not work.
Mary took part in the free medical test and ignored its results. She continued her work.
Dr.Sopar referred the matter to the city health officer, recommending that Mary be taken into custody immediately.
The health department sent an ambulance to the house where Mary was working - police cordoned off the house and closed the escape route, and a female doctor and a female police officer arrested Mary.
Mary was now in the custody of a laboratory at the New York Department of Health. She had to give them the samples they wanted.
The first sample of her feces was found to contain typhoid germs. Her gallbladder was found to be a haven for germs.
Mary ignored the advice to remove the gallbladder.
In the end, though not a criminal, she was isolated on an island like a prisoner.
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