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Get Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds’ Dig, Lazarus, Dig. Soon. Trust me. Or this guy.
I am sorry this woman lost her husband. That’s really sad. And I realize grief can often lead to people grasping at straws for answers. But if the court finds in this woman’s favor? That will be messed up.
In papers filed in the state court, Nancy Magee charged that a Petsmart in Warwick, Rhode Island in March 2005 sold a hamster infected with lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus, or LCMV, to a woman not named in the suit.
That woman later died of stroke and her liver was implanted in Magee’s husband, Thomas, in April 2005. A month later, Thomas Magee died of LCMV
Which is sad. Does not mean Petsmart is to blame here. Blame the doctors who somehow missed the presence of LCMV in the body of the woman who the took the organs from. Frankly, i do not by that it is that easy to overlook it when they could trace it back to the hamster.
Two other people who received organs from this woman died and one became seriously ill, the suit says, noting that medical authorities later tracked down the hamster in question and found it to be infected with LCMV.
I am sorry, this was the horrific error of someone…but it was not Petsmart. But then, a corporation is a much safer target I suppose. Unlike the debacle of Walmart trying to sue a brain damaged employee, this is firmly a situation where the corporation is not where it all went wrong. If she has to sue someone? Go for the people who screwed up…the people who performed the transplant.
