Kenneth Denesha had just finished mowing the lawn outside his Florida home one day last summer when he sensed something wasn’t quite right. It wasn’t his perennially painful shoulders. The 70-year-old retired laborer had been getting headaches, and now his vision was blurry and his speech slurred.
His wife took him to a hospital; within two days, he was dead.
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how sad for these people and their families, maybe if the lab was inspected someone would have noticed the black fungus growing on tubes and the filthy conditions, is this another NO SHOW job.......life in the public sector is grand, isn't it.
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Thank you for spotlighting this tragic outbreak as a key story in 2012, and kudos to the physicians who fought feverishly to get to the root of the issue and make every effort to save lives. This case is second only to a case since 1937? In this day and age, this never should have happened, and the fact that it did, is chilling. One can only hope that this tragedy will spark change and reform, but the innocent lives that were cut short from this careless and unthinkable error is a painful reality, and shameful; for that, I feel sadness for the families that are paying the ultimate price in their loss of a loved one.
As a DSemocrat, I would have to admit Deval is a flop. If he wants to accept full responsibility, next question, in these tragic events in a just world he would be prosecuted.
I am not a lawyer. When a company, run by officers of the company, decides to deviate from not only State but also Federal regulation. Is that not intent? If there is intent, is that not chargeable as a murder one?
Okay, I know the directors and officers will blame the workers. If I can spark fear in the hearts of those owner/officer SOBs I intend to do it. If we ever needed a strong US Attorney this is the time.
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My husband went through so much pain and suffering after coming down with fungal meningitis from an epidural shot he received in his back for back pain. No one should have to suffer like that, and then he died. A senseless death. A death due to greed and unregulation. This senseless death proves that companies cannot and will not regulate themselves. Now I am suffering living without him. I relive every moment he was in the hospital for 3 weeks, with severe headaches. I relive the last time I saw him. I relive the doctors trying to resuscitate him. I relive having to make the decision to disconnect life support. Now comes the task of having to move into a home I can afford on my own. I have to sell OUR home. Now I have to go through my husband's personal mementos and memorabilia. I have to donate my husband's clothes. I have to sell my husband's lifetime love - his drag racing stuff. This just isn't fair! Life insurance??? Until there is a cause of death other than "pending" there is no life insurance. I need my husbands income to live. Did the pharmaceutical lab ever think about what would happen to individuals that receive their tainted drugs? This doesn't affect only my husband, or only me. What about my husband's elderly parents, and his siblings, my family, the medical staff, his friends? We are all suffering at the hands of greed. Times how many deaths? Times how many patients that are still alive but are suffering still?