She was the first confirmation of Robert Koch's theory that a person could be infected with a bacterial disease but not appear sick.
After being found working at the Sloane Maternity Hospital under an assumed name, this person was returned to North Brother Island and remained there until her 1938 death. She first drew authorities' attention after the (+) deaths of six members of the Warren family, and was finally tracked down by George Soper. In 1909 the New York Supreme Court denied her a writ of habeas corpus, but she was released the next year on the stipulation that she would not (*) cook. She was the first confirmation of Robert Koch's theory that a person could be infected with a bacterial disease but not appear sick. For 10 points, name this Irish immigrant who transmitted that disease to as many as forty-seven New Yorkers in the early twentieth century.
After being found working at the Sloane Maternity Hospital under an assumed name, this person was returned to North Brother Island and remained there until her 1938 death.
{Typhoid Mary} [or {Mary Mallon}]