The psychology of the virus ‘super-spreader’

In this podcast, Dr Raj Persaud talks to Dr Susan Campbell Bartoletti about Mary Mallon, the subject of her recent book ‘Terrible Typhoid Mary: A True Story of the Deadliest Cook in America’. Mallon was a healthy carrier of typhoid fever at the turn of the 20th century who resisted public health officials’ attempts to contain her. Can the first documented ‘super-spreader’ in history reveal true causes of mo dern pandemics?

Source: Raj Persaud talks to... - April 9, 2020 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Royal College of Psychiatrists Source Type: podcasts