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Imagine it's fall 1906 in Oyster Bay, New York. You're a sanitation expert who's been

called to a remote vacation home on Long Island. You approach an elegant two-story house with

white arches covering a wide porch. The fresh breeze from the nearby ocean runs through a strand of oak trees on the lawn.

It's an idyllic location, but you know it was recently also the site of a typhoid outbreak.

A family from New York was vacationing here and fell ill suddenly, and you're here to find out why.

As you climb the porch, you're greeted by a man in an expensive-looking gray suit.

You notice tension etched on his face. He introduces himself as George Thompson, the owner of the house.

Thank you so much for coming quickly. Please, this way. He leads you to a large living room and motions for

you to sit. Across the hall, you notice a door is a jar, and through the opening you can make out a low,

four-poster bed. Thompson follows your gaze.

That's the room where her daughter was taken when she first came down with fever.

It wasn't long after that her mother became ill.

And then the other daughter, too.

How many people in total six including some household

staff all in a matter of days how did this happen i don't know yet but i assure you i will do everything in my

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