Editing Mary Mallon (section)

=== Ethics ===
The ethical question of her arrest and forced quarantine is still being debated. Historians frequently discuss the argument of Mallon knowing that she was infecting her clients with typhoid based on the frequency of the disease being present after her departure. They also cite the argument that antibiotics did not exist at this time and ten percent of those affected by Mallon carrying the infection died.<ref>{{cite book|last=Hopppe|first=Trevor|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1wn0rqg|title=Punishing Disease: HIV and the Criminalization of Sickness|date=2018|publisher=University of California Press|edition=1st|jstor=10.1525/j.ctt1wn0rqg}}</ref> By this argument Mallon could be considered a murderer of those ten percent of people if she knew she was a carrier of the disease, and would be a justification for her arrest.

Others argue that Mallon did not know that she had the bacteria and therefore did not deserve to be arrested when she never committed a crime. At the time, asymptomatic carriers were not understood and Mallon was believed to have said that she did not feel sick, look sick, or have any sort of visible sickness. Although Mallon did not feel ill or look sick, the disease was living dormant in what was assumed to be her gallbladder.<ref>{{cite web|title=User account|url=https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/user/login?destination=document-view|access-date=November 18, 2021|website=infoweb.newsbank.com}}</ref>