简介 TV Program Description / Original PBS Broadcast Date: October 12, 2004 Most Dangerous Woman homepage - "Woman Cook a Walking Typhoid Fever Factory," said the headline in a New York City newspaper in 1907. The woman was Mary Mallon, an Irish immigrant who as "Typhoid Mary" would become a notorious symbol of a public health menace. In "The Most Dangerous Woman in America," NOVA explores the legacy of one of history's most infamous disease carriers. Mary Mallon's ordeal took place at a time when the new science of bacteriology was shaping public health poli...