Editing Mary Mallon (section)

=== In culture ===

The phrase "[[wikt:Typhoid Mary|Typhoid Mary]]" is now a colloquial term for anyone who spreads disease or something else undesirable.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://dictionary.reference.com/browse/typhoid%20mary?s=t |title=Dictionary Reference Website: Typhoid Mary |publisher=Dictionary.reference.com |access-date=March 23, 2020}}</ref>

[[Typhoid Mary (character)|Typhoid Mary Fisk]], also known as Bloody Mary and Mutant Zero, is a fictional [[supervillain]] appearing in [[American comic book]]s published by [[Marvel Comics]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.comicvine.com/typhoid-mary/4005-1536/issues-cover/ |title=Typhoid Mary |publisher=Comic Vine |access-date=April 29, 2014}}</ref>

Mallon's case inspired the name of the rap music group [[Hail Mary Mallon]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Aesop Rock Launches New Group Hail Mary Mallon, Tours and Works With Kimya Dawson|url=https://pitchfork.com/news/42305-aesop-rock-launches-new-group-hail-mary-mallon-tours-and-works-with-kimya-dawson/|last=Breihan|first=Tom|website=Pitchfork|date=April 25, 2011|access-date=May 24, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180816093648/https://pitchfork.com/news/42305-aesop-rock-launches-new-group-hail-mary-mallon-tours-and-works-with-kimya-dawson/|archive-date=August 16, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref>

Mallon was portrayed by Melissa McMeekin in season one of the television series ''[[The Knick]]'',<ref>{{cite news |last1=Uhlich |first1=Keith |title=The Knick Recap: Open or Closed? |url=https://www.vulture.com/2014/09/the-knick-recap-placenta-operation.html |work=Vulture |date=September 20, 2014 |language=en-us}}</ref> in a somewhat fictionalised account of her initial infection of countless wealthy households.

Mallon's butcher knife featured as an artifact in season three of the television series ''[[Warehouse 13]]''.<ref>
{{Cite episode |title=Trials |episode-link= |url= |access-date= |series=Warehouse 13 |series-link=Warehouse 13 |first= |last= |network=SyFy |station= |date=July 18, 2011 |season=2 |series-no= |number= |minutes= |time= |transcript= |transcript-url= |quote= |language=}}</ref> Associated with Mallon's legacy with disease, the fictional artifact had the ability to transfer illness between individuals holding the knife simultaneously.

The novel ''Fever'' (2013) by [[Mary Beth Keane]] fictionalizes the story of Mary Mallon.{{citation needed|date=February 2025}}

A character based on Mallon appeared in the tenth episode of the television series ''[[Brimstone (TV series)|Brimstone]]''.<ref>{{Cite episode |title=Carrier |episode-link= |url= |access-date= |series=Brimstone |series-link=Brimstone (TV series) |first= |last= |network=Fox |station= |date=January 15, 1999 |season=1 |series-no= |number= |minutes= |time= |transcript= |transcript-url= |quote= |language=}}</ref> Like Mallon, Ann "Sally" McGee (played by [[Alexandra Powers]]) was also an asymptomatic carrier of typhoid kept in involuntary quarantine.