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Get you up to speed: Connecticut woman prepares lawsuit against cruise ship passengers over hantavirus outbreak
A woman named Teresa Jack is preparing to sue passengers on the hantavirus-hit cruise ship MV Hondius who do not self-isolate. She has organised a class action lawsuit that will include those who choose not to self-isolate as well as government institutions for failing to protect public health.
Teresa Jack has consulted with her lawyers regarding a potential lawsuit against passengers on the MV Hondius who do not self-isolate, according to reports. She has organised a legal fund supported by nearly 15,000 individuals, planning to include government institutions in her class action lawsuit for failing to protect public health.
Teresa Jack has organised a class action lawsuit targeting those on the cruise ship MV Hondius who do not self-isolate, aimed at preventing further outbreaks of hantavirus. Meanwhile, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has stated that passengers will be flown to Offutt Air Force Base in Omaha, Nebraska, before being taken to the National Quarantine Centre.
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Teresa Jack, who lives in Connecticut, has already consulted with her lawyers about passengers spreading the disease (Picture: AP/Teresa jack)
A woman is preparing to sue anyone on the hantavirus-hit cruise ship MV Hondius who does not self-isolate.
Teresa Jack, who lives in Connecticut, has already consulted with her lawyers about passengers spreading the disease once they disembark the ship.
Three people have died following the outbreak of the virus, with eight reported cases. It is suspected a Dutch couple who visited a landfill in Argentina caught the disease and brought it onto the cruise ship with them.
There are 17 US citizens still on board the ship, as well as a number of passengers who returned home before the outbreak was confirmed.
At least three US states – Georgia, California and Arizona – are monitoring people who may have been exposed to the virus, which has a 50% mortality rate according to the World Health Organisation.
Now Teresa has organised a lawsuit in case a preventable outbreak occurs due to people not self-isolating.
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The 35-year-old has received support from nearly 15,000 people, who have pledged to contribute $1 million to the legal fund should it go ahead.
Teresa told WTX: ‘I am not a lawyer, but I am a woman with a spreadsheet.
‘I lost too much over Covid, and we Americans are sick of everything feeling out of our control.’
The US’s war in Iran, Trump’s tariffs and the Covid-19 virus have all contributed to a feeling of helplessness, Teresa, a musical theatre performer, said.
She lost out on income after theatres were closed, which she is still feeling the financial affects of this to this day.
Teresa also lost loved ones to Covid as well as nearly dying after contracting it herself
‘The American people were left defenceless during the last pandemic,’ she said. ‘Solidarity and community will look very different this time.’
She added: ‘I know Brits will say it is a violently American way to threaten with a lawsuit. But that’s the culture we live in, so it’s the action we need to take.’
Her lawsuit, which she will open up as class action, will include those who choose not to self-isolate as well as government institutions for failing to protect public health.
The neighbours of those who are on board the ship have reached out to Teresa directly, pledging their support.
And since its announcement, Teresa has been in contact with the state of Arizona’s Attorney General’s Office.
She told them ‘concerned citizens are preared to pool $1 million should a preventable outbreak occur’.
Since that confirmation, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said passengers will be flown to Offutt Air Force Base in Omaha, Nebraska.
They will then be taken to the National Quarantine Centre.
Teresa said: ‘I feel like the threat has already made a difference.’
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October 12, 2024
6:18 am
‘Cheer up, you caught the bad guy,’ says killer Virginia McCullough as she is arrested for murdering her parents
A woman who murdered her parents “in cold blood” before hiding them in makeshift tombs for four years told officers to “cheer up, you caught the bad guy” as she was arrested in her home.
Virginia McCullough, 36, poisoned her father John McCullough, 70, with prescription medication and fatally stabbed her mother Lois McCullough, 71, shortly afterwards in 2019.
She ran up large debts on credit cards in her parents’ names and after their deaths, she continued to spend their pensions until she was finally caught in 2023.
In body-worn video footage released by police, a handcuffed – and eerily calm – McCullough told officers: “I did know that this would kind of come eventually.
“It’s proper that I serve my punishment.”
She said she had slipped something into her father’s drink then put his body under a bed on the ground floor, and put her mother’s body in an upstairs wardrobe.
McCullough, having been arrested on suspicion of double murder, told an officer: “Cheer up, at least you’ve caught the bad guy.”
She added: “I know I don’t seem 100% evil.”
At the police station, she told officers where a kitchen knife was, which she described as a “murder weapon”, and a hammer which she said “will still have blood on it”.
McCullough, of Pump Hill, Chelmsford, Essex, was sentenced to life imprisonment on Friday with a minimum term of 36 years at Chelmsford Crown Court, after she admitted to their murders between 17 and 20 June 2019 at an earlier hearing at the same court.
Chelmsford Crown Court heard how she hid their bodies in makeshift tombs at the family home in Great Baddow in Essex, then told persistent lies to cover her tracks.
The court heard she cancelled family arrangements and frequently told doctors and relatives her parents were unwell, on holiday or away on lengthy trips.
But concerns over Mr and Mrs McCullough’s welfare were raised in September 2023 by a GP at their registered practice, and Essex County Council’s safeguarding team referred these to police.
The GP had not seen the couple for some time and said Mr McCullough had failed to collect medication and attend scheduled appointments. It was found McCullough had frequently cancelled appointments, using a range of excuses to explain her father’s absence.
Police said a missing persons investigation was initially launched and McCullough lied to officers, claiming her parents were travelling and would be returning in October.
It became a murder investigation, and when officers forced entry to the house in Pump Hill on September 15 2023, McCullough confessed that her parents’ bodies were in the house and that she had killed them.
Nicola Rice, a specialist prosecutor for the Crown Prosecution Service, said: “McCullough callously and viciously killed both of her parents before concealing their bodies in makeshift tombs within their home address.
“She spent the next four years manipulating and lying to family members, medical staff, financial institutions, and the police, spending her parents’ money and accruing large debts in their name.”
She added: “This was a truly disturbing case, which has left behind it a trail of devastation, and I can only hope that the sentence passed today will help those who loved and cared for Lois and John begin to heal.”
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November 23, 2024
8:25 am
Defense alliance NATO chief Mark Rutte has met US President-elect Donald Trump to discuss global security issues, according to a NATO spokesperson.
The meeting took place in Palm Beach, Florida.
During his first term as US president, 2017-2020, Trump pushed for European NATO countries to spend more on defense and described the alliance’s cost-sharing as unfair to the US.
Rutte took over as NATO chief from Norwegian Jens Stoltenberg in November.
Before taking office in January, Trump has nominated Pete Hegseth for the post of defense secretary, which has raised eyebrows among many allies.
Hegseth, 44, has served as an infantry captain in Iraq and Afghanistan, but has no senior military or government officer experience.
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Multiple missiles were fired in an airstrike towards a densely populated part of Lebanon’s capital early on Saturday.
The huge airstrike targeted Beirut’s Basta neighbourhood, and no prior warnings were given by the Israeli military. The largely residential area was struck last month.
At least one violent explosion was heard across the city, Reuters witnesses said, and plumes of smoke could be seen. Scenes of massive destruction at the site were shared online, including a massive crater in the ground.
“Beirut, the capital, woke up to a horrific massacre, as the Israeli enemy’s air force completely destroyed an eight-story residential building with five missiles on Al-Mamoun Street in Basta,” the state-run National News Agency reported.
The health ministry put the initial death toll at four, with 23 wounded. The number is expected to climb in the coming hours as search and rescue efforts continue.
It came after a long day of Israeli airstrikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs, which have been non-stop since last week.
The cross-border fighting between Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah militant group escalated into a full-blown war in mid-September.
Israel has bombed southern Lebanon, Beirut’s southern suburbs and the eastern Beqaa region, and has sent ground troops across the border. Hezbollah has continued to fire rockets deeper into Israel.
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