Now before we kick off this episode of the podcast in which we continue discussing water-soluble vitamins, the two most important being Vitamin B12 and folic acid,

we're going to talk about a little something that happened in the news this morning that has nothing to do with medicine.

It has to do with the fact that the northeast of the United States experienced its first earthquake in New Jersey

that was felt all the way to Boston and Long Island and it was a magnitude 4.8. Now normally I would say hey let's rock out and

cue the music but I feel like that might not hit correctly given that it

happened. Thankfully so far from news reports everyone is doing okay and

what's more important is that it

didn't affect North Brother Island. They might be like how am I going to connect this?

Well let's go ahead and kick off the music and I'll tell you how that earthquake

connects to North Brother Island, Typhoid Mary, and of course we'll then jump into B12 and Folic Acid.

Ding, ding, ding, cue the music. Now we've talked about typhoid Mary before her name is Mary Malin. She was born in

1869 and emigrated to the United States from Ireland. She worked in the

Manhattan area for a numerous number of wealthy families as a cook and she was basically what we considered a

healthy carrier of Salmonella Taife and working as a cook her name typhoid Mary

became synonymous with the spread of the disease as so many people became

infected even though she was never ill. She actually was forced into quarantine to

North Brother Island which is just off the coast of Manhattan at the old

Riverside Hospital and she spent a total of 26 years there

between two different episodes of isolation. She died alone without her friends and

during earthquakes in times of upheaval we always keep a close eye on North Brother Island and the New York City area

because it's off limits, it's restricted, no one's allowed to go there.

Now their official stance is that it's due to the fact that it's a rough terrain,

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