Editing Mary Mallon (section)

=== Media reception ===
After Mallon was sent into her initial quarantine, the newspapers changed their opinion of her case. The articles at first mentioned how Josephine Baker claimed Mallon attacked her and the other doctors with forks, and came at them fighting and swearing.<ref name=":0">{{cite journal|last=Benenson|first=Abram S.|date=1999|title=Review of Typhoid Mary|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3343413|journal=Journal of Public Health Policy|volume=20|issue=3|pages=375–379|doi=10.2307/3343413|jstor=3343413|s2cid=189905236|issn=0197-5897}}</ref> Later the press articles shifted the blame away from being her fault, the claim being that she was unaware she was carrying anything and instead germs that she had no control over were to blame.<ref name=":0" />  Despite this shift, she was still popularly understood to have believed that she was contagious.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Foss |first=Katherine |date=April 24, 2020 |title=#TyphoidMary – now a hashtag – was a maligned immigrant who got a bum rap |url=https://theconversation.com/typhoidmary-now-a-hashtag-was-a-maligned-immigrant-who-got-a-bum-rap-136571 |work=[[The Conversation (website)|The Conversation]]}}</ref> The newspapers also claimed that Mallon was prohibited from using the telephone to contact anybody except the surgeons treating her and her guard. Stories that once celebrated the public health department and legal system eventually became sympathetic to Mallon and the events she supposedly encountered.<ref name=":0" /> Public health officials claimed the opposite, that she was treated to their best ability but in return refused to comply with the requests of the health officials.<ref name=":12">{{cite journal|last=Wald|first=Priscilla|date=1997|title=Cultures and Carriers: "Typhoid Mary" and the Science of Social Control|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/466739|journal=Social Text|issue=52/53|pages=181–214|doi=10.2307/466739|jstor=466739|issn=0164-2472}}</ref>