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Attorney Fred Pritzker Calls on Fairbank Farms to Pay Medical Expenses
MINNEAPOLIS - (BUSINESS WIRE) - Attorney
Fred Pritzker, a national food safety lawyer, calls on Fairbank
Farms, an Ashville, New York firm, to pay the medical expenses incurred
by victims of an E. coli O157:H7 outbreak linked to recalled
Fairbank Farms ground beef products.
"Eating a hamburger in the United States should not be a high-risk
activity," said Pritzker. "This outbreak was preventable. Fairbank Farms
should take responsibility for the harm caused by their ground beef
products and immediately pay the medical expenses of those sickened
while legal cases are being resolved."
State and federal authorities are in agreement that strong
epidemiological evidence and advanced, secondary DNA testing of ground
beef from an open package of Fairbank Farms ground beef taken from the
home of one of the victims correlates Fairbank Farms to the same strains
of E.
coli O157:H7 that have been making people sick.
Illnesses have been reported in Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts,
Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Virginia,
Pennsylvania, Minnesota and California.
E. coli O157:H7 emits a powerful Shiga toxin that attacks red
blood cells in humans. Its effects can range from mild gastrointestinal
discomfort to death and people who have weakened or underdeveloped
immune systems - especially children under 5 and adults over 60 - are
most vulnerable.
Two people have died in this outbreak, and 16 people have been
hospitalized. Of those hospitalized, three developed hemolytic
uremic syndrome, or HUS. This is a life-threatening complication of E.
coli O157:H7 infection that kills more than 4 percent of its
victims. Even when it's not fatal, patients often suffer life-long
health consequences. HUS is the leading cause of kidney failure in
children in the United States.
Pritzker Olsen is one of the few law firms in the United States that
practices extensively in the area of E. coli litigation. Attorney Fred
Pritzker is listed in the 2010 edition of The Best Lawyers in America.
For more information, call Fred Pritzker at 1-888-377-8900 (toll free)
or visit our website at http://www.pritzkerlaw.com.
Pritzker Olsen has offices at Plaza VII, Suite 2950, 45 South Seventh
Street, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55402
Pritzker Olsen
Attorney Fred Pritzker, 1-612-338-0202
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