Other Index Patients
- Mary Mallon (a.k.a. Typhoid Mary) was an index case of a typhoid outbreak. An apparently healthy carrier, she infected 47 people while working as a cook. She eventually was quarantined to prevent her from spreading the disease to others.
- The first recorded victim of the Ebola virus was a 44-year-old schoolteacher named Mabalo Lokela, who died 8 September 1976, 14 days after symptom onset.
- 64-year-old Liu Jianlun, a Guangdong doctor, transmitted SARS during a stay in the Hong Kong Metropole Hotel in 2003.
- A baby in the Lewis House at 40 Broad Street is considered the index patient in the 1854 cholera outbreak in the Soho neighborhood of London. (The Ghost Map, Steven Johnson, 2005)
- Édgar Enrique Hernández may be patient zero of the 2009 swine flu outbreak. He recovered, and a bronze statue may be erected in his honor. Maria Adela Gutierrez, who contracted the virus about the same time as Hernández, became the first officially confirmed fatality.
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