A Shigella lawyer can help you file a lawsuit to get money from a restaurant responsible for your food poisoning illness. You have suffered severe pain and may have had to take time off of work. You should get compensation for that. You or your loved one may have suffered kidney failure from a complication called hemolytic uremic syndrome. Settlements in these cases can be in the millions. Contact our law firm and talk with a lawyer about a Shigella lawsuit using the form below.
Can I Sue a Restaurant for Shigella Food Poisoning?
Yes, you can sue a restaurant for Shigella food poisoning (shigellosis), and our lawyers are some of the few in the nation who have won millions for people like you who were harmed by unsafe food. We have won personal injury lawsuits against fast-food and other chain restaurants.
Some of our clients have developed serious complications, like hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS), a disease that causes kidney failure.
Contact our law firm to talk to an attorney about your case. Tell us what happened, ask questions and find out how to protect your rights. Call 1-888-377-8900 or use our free consultation form.
What if My Child Has Shigellosis?
Our law firm has helped children get multi-million-dollar settlements from large corporations that sold tainted food. In one of our cases, our client had HUS and was told by her doctor that she had permanent kidney damage and would probably not be able to have children. Our team represented her and won her a $4.5 million settlement.
What is Shigella Bacteria?
Shigella is the name of a family of bacteria found in the feces of humans and other primates such as monkeys and chimpanzees. It is usually not found in other animals, but it is often found in water that has been contaminated with human feces. These bacteria are named after a Japanese scientist named Shega who first discovered the organisms.
If you or someone in your family gets a Shigella bacteria infection, you may develop an illness called shigellosis. Shigellosis, or as it is sometimes called, bacillary dysentery, is characterized by gastrointestinal symptoms, including diarrhea. In most cases, the illness runs its course in about a week. However, in many cases, it may take several months before bowel movements return to normal. More rarely, shigellosis develops into more severe conditions, including Reiter’s syndrome, reactive arthritis, and hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS).
How is Shigellosis Spread?
Most cases of shigellosis are passed from person to person via the oral-fecal route, meaning that someone, via food contamination or unsanitary hygiene, ingests some of the feces of someone with the infection. Shigella is present in the stool of an infected person and it continues to be present in the person’s stool for about two weeks after they are no longer sick. Toddlers who are infected often pass the germ on to others. Vegetables can become contaminated if the field in which they grow contains sewer water.
You or your family could also become infected by swimming in, or drinking, water that is contaminated. Water is sometimes contaminated if someone with shigellosis swims in it or if sewer water has run into it.
Of the known types of this bacteria, S. sonnei, also known as “Group D” Shigella, causes more than two-thirds of the shigellosis cases in the U.S. S. flexneri, or “group B”, accounts for most other cases. S. dysenteriae has been known to cause deadly epidemics in the developing world, but it and other types of this bacteria are rare in the U.S.
You can call 1-888-377-8900 (toll-free) or click here now to contact a Shigella lawyer at our law firm and get your free consultation if you have Shigella symptoms or have had complications of Shigella food poisoning. We are a national law firm and represent clients in personal injury and wrongful death lawsuits throughout the U.S.