The husband of a pregnant woman in Texas who died of swine flu last week was the opening of legal moves in what could become a civil lawsuit of $ 1 billion for the wrongful death against a US pork producer who raised pigs in Mexico, where it alleges may be involved in the outbreak. (The petition was marked The Brownsville Herald .)
On May 11, Steven Trunnell, a paramedic, filed a petition to the County Court Cameron County, Texas, which seeks to lay representatives of Smithfield Foods, a Virginia-based company that owns 50% of Granjas Carroll de Mexico, a large pig farm in the state of Veracruz. Trunnell's wife, Judy, a special education teacher who was 8 months pregnant, was hospitalized because of swine flu, April 19 and died from infection with the new H1N1 virus on May 5, according to the petition. The healthy baby was delivered by caesarean section before the death of the mother. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on May 12 issued a dispatch in his Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report on H1N1 during pregnancy that described his case in detail. If the discovery is evidence to justify illicit demand death, states the petition Trunnell will change his plea and seek to maintain Smithfield Foods responsible as $ 1 billion in damages.
Granjas Carroll received intense media attention for weeks because a boy who lived at the Gloria, a town near the pig farm, had one of the first confirmed cases of swine flu in Mexico. The petition states that "it is likely that the creation and spread of the deadly strain of swine flu may have been caused in part by historically unsanitary conditions that Smithfield Foods knowingly taken him to Mexico as part of operating the largest pig farm in the world. "The petition further alleges that" it is reasonable to think that the area around the Gloria is "zero" for the H1N1-09 swine flu, "saying that the boy" seems to be the first person in the world who was diagnosed "with the virus.
Although epidemiologists have focused much attention on Gloria because of a respiratory outbreak there dating back to mid-February, a major Mexican epidemiologist of Ministry of Health said on May 4 science they had confirmed a case earlier that the boy and he was from Mexico, which calls into question the location of the origin of the epidemic in Mexico. Many researchers are also convinced that the virus jumped from pigs in Mexico in humans that live there, as he could have come to this country from an infected human, and there is still no evidence that pigs throughout Mexico or workers at Granjas Carroll-have been infected with the virus.
Smithfield Foods did not respond to an interview request. The lawyer representing Steven Trunnell, Marc Rosenthal, also could not be reached for comment.
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