Documents the true story of the woman, Mary Mallon, judged to be such a danger to public health that she was incarcerated by the city of New York for 23 years. She was thought to be America's first known healthy typhoid carrier. The programme also explores the contemporary relevance of the story in the light of AIDS and a recent outbreak of TB in New York, it debates the rights of individuals against the wider interests of society.
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