Typhoid Mary: Any reasons Mary Mallon should NOT have been quarantined?

Question

Public health officials justified her incarceration by stating that theyre protecting the others' health, but what about her right? any other reasons why she shouldntve been quarantined?

Answer 1

Right to life, liberty & the pursuit of happiness.

Answer 2

The problem with this case was, the woman was a carrier for the disease, but she couldn't get the disease herself. Almost everyone she came into physical contact with or prepared food for got the disease. She was made aware of her condition and she signed documents where she agreed to never work as a cook again and yet, she went back to working as a cook where she could continue to spead the disease.

I'm sorry but I can't come up with a reason that she shouldn't have been quarantined. We do not have the right to infect the public with dangerous diseases. Once you are aware of a situation where you are endangering the public health, to continue placing yourself in situations where you infect people is just as hostile and criminal an action as assaulting someone.

Answer 3

No...after reading the history of Mary Mallon, you have to understand that she was set free after she promised not to work as a cook ever again....which is how it is believed she spread Typhoid fever...she was a "healthy carrier" of the disease...for some reason, Mary didn't want to believe she was a "healthy carrier" and soon after her release, she was back working as a cook (and using a false name) and more typhoid broke out ...and several more people died as a result.
Prior to her inititally being arrested, she fought, cursed and refused to cooperate with authorties...which COULD be the reason they were not "sympathetic" towards her to begin with.
Had she kept her "end of the bargain" and NOT gone back to being a cook, she would most likely have remained free.