Dr. Jo and Mary

When Mary Mallon escapes the poverty and death devastating Ireland, she immigrates to the United States with dreams of becoming a cook. Except when she starts to cook, her clients begin to die. When she is discovered to be the first known typhoid carrier in America, she is hunted down by Dr. Josephine Baker. Imprisoned and subjected to testing at the whim of the Department of Health, a trial bankrolled by William Randolph Hearst attempts to free Mary. Briefly released, only to be captured again by Dr. Baker, she is forced into a lifetime of exile as the infamous Typhoid Mary.