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. . . and more. The woman refused to The woman refused and more. . . . “I am an innocent human being.” Fatal Fever: Tracking Down Down Tracking Fever: Fatal Mary Typhoid Gail Jarrow by EXCERPTS TO WRITE ABOUT TO EXCERPTS A high wooden fence separated the backyard from the house next door. If she could the house next door. from A high wooden fence separated the backyard yard. just get over that fence and into the neighbor’s A wooden chair pushed up against the fence would do the trick. say that they had no Thank Almighty God she had friends who would help. Would point out a small outside closet under the neighbor’s she’d gone. Would idea where pile some ash cans against its closed door after she climbed in. Would steps. front down. Mary shut the door behind her and crouched alone in that cramped, cold closet. Deep inside her know it, but she wasn’t She didn’t hiding, too. were microorganisms billions of deadly body, Yesterday, a woman in a tailored suit and stiff collar had come to the kitchen. She suit and stiff in a tailored a woman Yesterday, exactly that claimed to have the authority to do Now she was back with the police. “no” for an answer. take Mary’s She should let her go. they wouldn’t her, that this time, if they caught Mary was sure her or when she had the chance. They had no right to threaten have disappeared going to let them do it. was only a cook, Mary wasn’t Even if she touch her body. the kitchen and down the hall. Picking up her skirts, she fled past she scanned the Frantically, she hide? Mary headed for the backdoor. could Where looking Policemen were for a hiding place, but she saw nothing. yard snow-covered She was trapped. for her inside the house and out on the street. Early on a damp March morning in 1907, Mary Mallon answered the knock at the the knock at the morning 1907, Mary Mallon answered Early on a damp March in one look at the house. She took brownstone servants’ entrance of a New York sharp fork. As they flinched, she ran toward visitors and lunged at them with her the kitchen. man with a a well-dressed A few weeks earlier, there. Mary knew why they were he her of outrageous and horrible things. Later, mustache had shown up, accusing the right to home. Acted as though he had Cornered her at her friend’s followed her. blood. stick her with a needle and steal her The Lead: Hidden Read the lead to the book and think about what the author’s argument is. What is What is. argument the author’s about what and think to the book the lead Read questions and annotate your thinking. annotate and questions Directions: to those you find clues where Highlight What is her perspective? purpose? the author’s X X GRAB & GO X X (Continued) X X Highlight evidence and annotate your thinking. Read the endof the storyand see whether the author provides evidence to support the claim. Now thatyou’ve finish thelead, write what you think the author’s argument or claims are. the soapthathelpsremove bacteria. clean water. Intheseareas, peopletendtowashtheir handslessoftenandwithout them routinely defecatingonopenground. Nearly800millionhavenoaccessto many as2.5billionpeopleworldwidelivewithoutbasic ,withabillionof Typhoid spreads easilywhere humanwastecontaminatesdrinking waterandfood.As Asia alsohavehightyphoidrates,particularlyinurban slums. the world’s casesoccur. Partsofsub-SaharanAfrica,Latin America,andsoutheast country. MosthadbeentoIndia,Bangladesh,orPakistan,where thevastmajorityof About 80percent ofthesepeoplecaughtthebacteriaduringatripoutside Today, deathfrom typhoidisrare. fever. By1940,theratehaddropped toonly1outof100,000. number ofvictims.In1900,about31every100,000Americansdiedtyphoid Water filtration,chlorination,andimproved sewagedisposal greatly reduced the In theUnitedStates,publichealthbattleagainsttyphoidfeverwasasuccess. The RestoftheStory:Typhoid intheTwenty-First Century . shattered dreams, broken hearts,andpainfuldeath. These three peoplewere brought togetherbyadreaded scourge thatleftbehind The worldwouldremember whoshewaslongafterithadforgotten theothertwo. with bothofthemwouldleadtoanotorietythathaslastedformore thanacentury. For MaryMallon,strugglingtosupportherselfinanadoptedcountry, herencounters responsibility. itwouldbolsterhereffortsoften corruptcitygovernment, togainrespect and For SaraJosephineBaker, attemptingtomakehermarkin a male-dominatedand another triumphtoboosthiscareer. For George AlbertSoper, toestablishhisreputation, determined theeventwouldadd middle oftheirlives.Inlatewinter1907,thoseliveschangedforever. withinfouryearsofeachotherandhadtakendifferentbeen born pathstoreach the The fatesofthree people collidedatthatNewYork Citybrownstone. Thethree had “Typhoid fevercanbeprevented.” . . . —Centers forDiseaseControl andPrevention . . . GRAB & GO

Salmonella typhi ’s genome to find genome ’s Salmonella typhi Salmonella by Leslie Blauman. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin, www.corwin.com. by Leslie Blauman. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin, www.corwin.com. will no longer inflict pain and suffering on will no longer inflict pain and suffering Salmonella typhi Teaching Evidence-Based Writing: Nonfiction Evidence-Based Writing: Teaching What was the author’s argument or claim? What evidence was provided? was provided? What evidence or claim? argument was the author’s What Someday, research and efforts may succeed in eradicating typhoid fever. in eradicating typhoid fever. may succeed and public health efforts research Someday, When that happens, years ago. And no one will a hundred than more communities the way it did in Ithaca Mary” again. ever become a “Typhoid Hope for the Future Hope for of the DNA sequence studying are Scientists Clues may lead to better can use to fight typhoid fever. weaknesses that they and vaccines. treatments, diagnostic tests, antibiotics, in a carrier’s typhoid bacteria remain trying to understand how are Other researchers because symptoms. The work is challenging body without causing on humans would be animals, and certain experiments cause disease in other doesn’t unethical. the water supply from aimed at protecting are in developing countries Projects of the in many parts purifying it by chlorination. Unfortunately, contamination and could take years to achieve. improvements world, these sanitation she is writing about but declares that her subject has been notorious for more than a century: “The world would than a century: “The world that her subject has been notorious for more she is writing about but declares who Gail Jarrow opens her account of a woman infected with typhoid fever with a narrative writing style that makes it all read with typhoid fever with a narrative writing style that makes it all read opens her account of a woman infected Gail Jarrow

Write about reading: Write claim. the and supported was relevant the evidence whether Evaluate X Retrieved from the companion website for the companion website Retrieved from this book. that has purchased organization local school site or nonprofit authorized only for the Reproduction Note: on the table. She deliberately withholds details so her cards lay all doesn’t a dramatic opening because Jarrow like a novel. It’s the demands of the people knocking police involved? Why is she resisting the are that we wonder: Is this woman a criminal? Why also Notice the way Jarrow Mary. unfurls her subject matter: Typhoid fully at her door? At the end of this opening, Jarrow establishes technique for an opening because it two.” This is an effective the other who she was long after it had forgotten remember know this story—you should. that if you don’t on by establishing almost corners into reading the reader X (Continued)