Personal Injury Law

Lake Powhatan closed due to Cryptosporidium

Posted on August 30, 2010
Health officials closed Lake Powhatan to swimming and fishing to prevent the spread of an illness caused by a microscopic parasite. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended the move after three cases of cryptosporidiosis and a suspected fourth were reported to the Buncombe County Health Department...

Spray Park Cryptosporidium Lawsuit Trickles Through Legal System

Posted on August 09, 2010
ROCHESTER BUSINESS JOURNAL / RBJDAILY.COM August 6, 2010 ~ Class-action case dates back to July 2005 when thousands became ill ~ Five years after several thousand visitors to a state-run water park in Geneva were laid low by a nasty intestinal bug, a class-action suit accusing the state Department of Parks and Recreation of negligence in letting parasites infest the park's waters could be inching toward a trial...

New York Water Park Cryptosporidium Outbreak Update

Posted on June 13, 2010
As you know, we were scheduled to engage in a mediation with the State in an effort to resolve the Class personal injury claims. However, shortly before the mediation date, the State informed us that it would not mediate. Instead, and contrary to its earlier communications, it stated it feels it is not liable and will be bringing some motion before the Judge to challenge some or all of the claims...

Seneca Lake "Spray Park" Class Action: Status Update

Posted on March 19, 2010
Much has happened since we last reported on the status of the spray park litigation. The period for discovery regarding the liability portion of the case is now closed. We have collected thousands of pages of documents relating to the spray park and have examined under oath numerous State officials involved in the design, construction and operation of the park...

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Serum immunoglobulin G, M and A response to Cryptosporidium parvum in Cryptosporidium-HIV co-infected patients

Posted on November 29, 2009
Cryptosporidium parvum, the protozoan parasite, causes a significant enteric disease in immunocompromised hosts such as HIV patients. The present study was aimed to compare serum IgG, IgM and IgA responses to crude soluble antigen of C. parvum in HIV seropositive and seronegative patients co-infected with Cryptosporidium and to correlate the responses with symptomatology...

Spinacia oleracea L. leaf stomata harboring Cryptosporidium parvum oocysts: A potential threat for food safety

Posted on November 22, 2009
American Society for Microbiology Dumitru Macarisin, Gary Bauchan, and Ronald Fayer Abstract Cryptosporidium parvum is a cosmopolitan microscopic protozoan parasite that causes severe diarrheal disease (cryptosporidiosis) in mammals, including humans and livestock...

Settlement in the works in cryptosporidia sprayground class action

Posted on October 08, 2009
Craig Fox of the Finger Lake Times reported today that attorneys are ready to begin negotiating an out-of-court settlement in a lawsuit that claims about 2,000 people became sick with a waterborne intestinal illness after visiting the sprayground at Seneca Lake State Park four years ago...

New York Spray Park Class Action Cryptosoridium Update

Posted on October 05, 2009
UPDATE: The discovery process which is the formal means of getting information to support claims in a lawsuit is now complete. We have taken depositions of the key players in the spraypark outbreak and have developed our experts' testimony. The State has taken the depositions of a select group of claimants to better understand the nature of the damages suffered as a result of a Cryptosporidium infection...

South Wales Pool Makes 30 Sick With Crypto; Eight Being Held In Isolation

Posted on September 12, 2009
The British call them the "wet activities," which apparently refers to just about anything that can be done in a swimming pool. In the South Wales town of Merthyr Tydfil the town has a deck level competition size swimming pool complete with electronic score boards for keeping track of those in-water competitive events...

Washington University in St. Louis Provides Tell All On Cryptosporidium

Posted on September 01, 2009
The School of Medicine at Washington University in St. Louis is the publisher for the "Hospital Medicine Virtual Journal."  It just published "up to date review of the biology, biochemistry and host parasite relationships of Cryptosporidium...

CDC Advise For Dallas Back Yard Pool Owners Might Be Good For Other Hotspots

Posted on August 24, 2009
The Center for Disease Control (CDC) has released a bulletin encouraging pool cleaning of Dallas pools on a weekly basis to prevent recreational water illnesses (RWI's). The announcement comes after a study concluded that the number of outbreaks of RWI's has been increasing each year for the past decade...

Wisconsin City Closes And Then Re-Opens Popular Fountain That Is Not Treated and Sanitized To Public With Lot's of Warning Signs

Posted on August 07, 2009
 City officials in Neenah, WS this week restarted a popular fountain in Shattuck Park, but at the same time imposed tougher rules to prohibit kids from playing in it. According to the local Post-Crescent newspaper, here's what happened: The city posted signs July 22 warning people to stay out of the Shattuck fountain for health and safety reasons and then shut down the fountain indefinitely later that day after park visitors defiantly ignored the signs...

Fear By Beer-makers About EPA Forced Change To Portland's Bull Run Waters

Posted on July 27, 2009
Portland's brewmasters say its wrong for the federal Environmental Protection Agency to apply one standard to all open drinking water systems across the entire United States. But forcing all open public water operations  to install filtration systems by 2014 is EPA's answer to the the spring 1993 cryptosporidium outbreak in Milwaukee, Wisconsin...

Virginia's Rye Valley Water Authority Mum For 11 Months About Water Gone Bad

Posted on July 14, 2009
In Virginia, the Rye Valley Water Authority is being accused of going almost a year before telling the public that its water had gone bad. The Bristol Herald Courier reports on how that's got the whole community of Sugar Grove up in arms. Michael Ward stood up at a community meeting to declare he had diarrhea eight times last year – a peculiar public announcement, but one met with gratitude by dozens of his neighbors, who had squeezed into a muggy gymnasium for the June gathering...

Ultraviolet Water Treatment Emerges As Way To Fight Cryptosporidium

Posted on July 05, 2009
New York has a new water safety regulation. It's found in Section 6-3.11 and says: 'Ultraviolet light disinfection is required in addition to approved Chemical disinfectant.' A company in Northwest England ---atg UV Technology—tells how that new NY regulation came about: Following major outbreaks in Northampton, Galway, Utah and New York, Cryptosporidium has become a major concern for the leisure industry...

Heritage Park Fountain Shutting Down Twice Daily, But Does Anyone Tell Swimmers Not To Poop In The Water?

Posted on June 13, 2009
In an editorial that went along way toward explaining to the public what's really going on at Olympia, Washington's Heritage Park Fountain, the Daily Olympian still fell too short of providing the public with a real education about the dangers of "swimming" in such facilities...

"Diapered children frequently sat on top of splash features"---MMWR Gets To The Bottom Of 2007 Crypto Outbreak In Meridian, Idaho .

Posted on June 11, 2009
The 2007 closure of the splash park in Meridian, Idaho's popular Settler's Park after the  chlorine-resistant parasite Cryptosporidium began making people sick gets an autopsy in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) for June 12, 2009...

Colorado City Keeps Water Off Until It Can Comply With Swimming Pool Regulations At New Public Fountain

Posted on June 01, 2009
The City of Arvada, the 100,000 plus suburb that fills in much of the space between Denver and Boulder counties in Colorado, boasts an "Olde Town" dating back to 1870.  Its been the subject of an intense urban renewal focus in recent years that has brought office, retail, and housing investment to the area...

Swimming Pools Are Being Closed Once A Week In Name of Water Quality And Fighting Cryptosporidium

Posted on May 19, 2009
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Swim Diapers Do Not Cut The Crypto From Spreading In Pools And Water Parks

Posted on May 12, 2009
Swim diapers do not prevent the spread of Cryptosporidium (Crypto) in swimming pools and water parks, according to a new University of North Carolina (UNC) - Charlotte study     Researchers found swim diapers may slow the release of disease-causing germs, but the benefits are short-lived...

Parasites In Pennsylvania: Can Summer Be Far Behind?

Posted on May 12, 2009
 Officals in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania have anounced that 3 individuals have beenconfirmed with cryptosporidium.    While public swimming pools are common source of cryptosporidium outbreaks, there is reportedly no evidence of such a connection here...

New Cryptosporidium-Fighting Treatment Plant Comes To Joplin, MO

Posted on May 07, 2009
Joplin, MO just got itself a twofer.  A new water treatment facility will add an extra five million gallons of clean water a day for economic development AND it will inactivate the cryptosporidium bacteria with ultra violet light. Joplin celebrated the new water treatment plant Thursday with a ribbon cutting...

Mayor of Virginia Town Finds Himself "Doing A Little Side-step" As Crypto Brings "Boil Water" Order

Posted on April 14, 2009
The town well in Buchanan, VA is at risk due to Cryptosporidium, which is not killed by the chlorination process. So the town is living with a "boil water" order and city council meetings are getting mean. And instead of talking about the Crypto in the water , Mayor Tom Middlecamp is talking up what's not in the water...

Down-Under University Researchers Find One Person Could Be Responsible For Sydney's Big Crypto Outbreak

Posted on March 30, 2009
Sydney, Australia is undergoing an outbreak of Cryptosporidium that in a little more than a month has made 628 people sick. All of last year, the water rich city saw only 482 cases of Crypto. And now the Star newspaper is reporting that the Sydney's entire cryptosporidium outbreak may be linked to a single infected person...

Portland, Yes Portland, Says George Bush Went Too Far On Water Quality

Posted on March 01, 2009

Lana Turner's Home County Spends $12.5 Million To Insure Against Crypto

Posted on February 02, 2009
Shoshone County, Idaho was the home of Lana Turner (1921-1995). One of the 20th Century's biggest movie stars was discovered, according to the story, at Schwab's Drug Store by the publisher of the Hollywood Reporter. The railroad and mining town of Wallace, Idaho, however was also known for its whorehouses, some of which remained opened throughout much of the 20th Century...

Milwaukee, Site of Largest Cryptosporidium Outbreak In U.S. History, Prefers Bottled Water

Posted on January 05, 2009
Freedom has been under attack for the past decade or so by the so-called "Nanny State."  Most "Nanny State" laws and ordinances are the product of politicians who do not have enough to do or who are totally unable to solve real problems in this society...

Rapid Screening Test To Tell If You Have Cryptosporidium Problem In Just 3 Hours

Posted on December 11, 2008
  We've seen some cities move very quickly when they confirm that their splash, swimming or wave pools are contaminated by Cryptosporidium. Now comes a quicker test to detect the bug, one that moves the typical time for results up to a mere three hours, from today's fifteen hours...

EPA Forces Small Towns And Rural Water Systems To Test For E coli And Crypto

Posted on November 14, 2008
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has brought certain California small towns and rural water systems into compliance for testing of  E. coli, which can indicate the presence of cryptosporidium, a pathogen than can caused intestinal illness...

3rd Highest Foreclosure Rate Means Florida Has Problem Pools All Over The Place--Crypto Risk High

Posted on October 22, 2008
To its growing problem with public and quasi-public swimming pools, Florida must now be concerned about its rising number of abandoned backyard pools.   The Sunshine State is No. 3 in foreclosures, according to recent data, and residential swimming pools are common...

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