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Norovirus - Infected vacationers win class-action suit

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Infected vacationers win class-action suit

Windsor Star December 21, 2010 8:02 PM

Dalson Chen

Darryl Burrows hasn't forgotten some of the gruesome details of his encounter with a dreaded gut virus while vacationing in the Dominican Republic five years ago.

"People were literally soiling themselves on the planes," recalls the 58-year-old Windsor resident.

"There were planeloads of people coming back with this stuff. They couldn't get to the washroom fast enough. I heard that from the stewardesses. It was bad. It was really bad."

Toronto-based law firm Rochon Genova recently announced that a $2.25 million settlement has been reached in a class-action lawsuit against the company MyTravel Canada Holidays Inc.

The lawsuit relates to the outbreak of the norovirus - a highly-contagious cause of gastrointestinal illness - at the sun-drenched Riu resorts of Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic, in late 2004 and early 2005.

According to the law firm, MyTravel arranged vacation packages to the resorts while the outbreak was occurring...

Read more: http://www.windsorstar.com/health/I...+action+suit/4010981/story.html#ixzz18ntP6O5s
 
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