When his super-centrifuge machine conked out and couldn't be repaired during the war, tousle-haired Biochemist John Vaichulis began looking around Illinois' Manteno State Mental Hospital for some other project to keep him busy. In one building on Manteno's grounds he found a group of patients who were never allowed to mix with other patients. They were the country's largest concentration of typhoid carriers, the backwash of a 1939 epidemic which swept Manteno, plus patients sent from other Illinois state hospitals to be isolated.
Breeding Place. Although they no longer suffered from typhoid themselves, they were human breeding grounds for typhoid germs,...
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