Widower seeks to sue operator of pig farm (swine flu victim had just given birth)

This is sad, I hadn't heard that one of those who died was a new mom


http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/local/05/13/0513flusuit.html

A court petition seeking answers in a Cameron County teacher's swine flu death accuses a Virginia-based company of having "horrifically unsanitary conditions" at its pig farm in Mexico and wants to discover what role the farm might have played in the outbreak.

The petition was filed in state District Court in Cameron County by Steven Trunnell of Harlingen on behalf of his wife, Judy Dominguez Trunnell, a 33-year-old special education teacher who died May 5 after delivering a healthy baby girl by cesarean section days earlier.

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Although health officials said Judy Trunnell had "chronic underlying health conditions," her husband said that was incorrect. She was in excellent health and had no medical problems before falling ill with swine flu, he said.

She had psoriasis, a skin condition, but that was unrelated to her death, Steven Trunnell said. Her immune system was compromised by the pregnancy — pregnant women are at risk for complications from flu — and hearing medical officials say otherwise was "devastating," he said.

People die of malaria. Are we going to start suing tropical nations for allowing such pathogens and vectors to exist? People die of all sorts of infections. It's sad, but that's the way it goes. What, are we going to sue the asshole in the movie theater next to us who didn't cover his mouth when he sneezed?

its the same as catching a sickness from someone in a movie theatre?

a meat packer's practices in Mexico and the origins of the flu of a lady in Texas, there's no legal ground to stand on. And even if it WAS possible to trace the meatpacker's practices to this lady's flu case, there's all sorts of factors and variables. Simply hoping to find a scapegoat to pay up the big bucks is what's going on here. This isn't a case of an employee with hepatitis infecting people in a restaurant, or a supermarket contaminating its in-store deli salads with chicken-juice salmonella.

But regardless, just assuming we knew there was one, I still don't think its the equivalent of catching a sickness in a movie theatre.

Breeding original and potential global pandemics in conditions created by chasing maximum profits is surely very, very different than catching a contagious sickness. The level of negligence goes above and beyond not covering one's nose.

It isn't that I think this lawsuit has merit. I just think the comment I pointed out is a bit of a stretch.

that is a breeding ground for all sorts of problems...and all were foretold when these maga farms started up....I sure as hell wouldn't want to live with-in 100 miles of one...