The Bird Flu
Bird Flu Cases - Bird Flu Symptoms - Bird Flu Prevention - Bird Flu History
Prepare Your Family For The Bird Flu Epidemic
H5N1 Avian Flu: Infection Period - 1997 to 2006
- Avoid Handling Birds
- Avoid Eating Birds
- Avoid The Sick
- Cover Coughs
- Cover Sneezes
- Seek A Doctor Quickly
Your Legal Rights
Your Legal Rights
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Whenever you are injured, you have certain legal rights, that largely depend on where you were injured, who injured you, whether they were negligent in injuring you, and whether that injury caused you significant damage.
In the case of the Bird Flu, it is possible, to have a case against the person or business who infected you, if in the course of doing so, they were negligent in protecting you. Such a case might be, being assigned a room in a hospital, where it was known to hospital staff the other patient in your room had the Bird Flu, before you were moved to the room. On that patient was moved into your room, after it was known they had the Bird Flu. That would be negligent on the behalf of the hospital.
Another such case might be where an employer who knew that his employee had Bird Flu, forced them to stay on the job, and they infected you as a result. Such a case might take place on a cruise ship, if the infected employee was not isolated from the passengers, and was forced to continue working, coming into contact with passengers.
If in either case, the person who was negligently infected died, that might be an option the surviving family would want to explore, by consulting with an attorney who specializes in this area.
Other cases might involved doctors or hospitals who turn away sick patients because they do not have insurance, and they subsequently die, create a wrongful death case.
In general, we get sick from the flu, by coming into contact with people, who do not realize they are sick. They are can infect us in the early stages before they begin to show symptoms themselves. That is life. But, there are some instances, where the person who infected you, did so deliberately. Those are the kind of cases that should be discussed with an experienced attorney.
