Typhoid Maryとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

Typhoid Mary (plural Typhoid Marys)

1. A person who carries and spreads a dangerous disease, especially one who refuses to cooperate to minimize the risk of infection.
   • 2001, Stephen King, Dreamcatcher, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 356:

     “ […] Do you know what our great fear has been? That either the grayboys or the Ripley would find a Typhoid Mary, someone who could carry it and spread it without catching it him- or herself.”

   • 2005, Annabelle du Fouet, “The murky world from whence it all came” (chapter 2), in Weather Balloons Make Rotten Sex Toys, Ellora's Cave, →ISBN, page 47:

     As far as I can tell, Montezuma must have been some sort of Typhoid Mary. Even today, visitors to Mexico speak of catching a terrible affliction known as “Montezuma’s revenge,” which apparently causes violent, unrelenting bowel movements.

   • 2019 January 20, John Naughton, quoting Shoshana Zuboff, “‘The goal is to automate us’: welcome to the age of surveillance capitalism”, in The Guardian‎:

     And it was a Google executive – Sheryl Sandberg – who played the role of Typhoid Mary, bringing surveillance capitalism from Google to Facebook, when she signed on as Mark Zuckerberg’s number two in 2008.

Further reading

• Mary Mallon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia