Personal injury solicitors and the patch to cut holiday stomach bugs
Personal injury solicitors in the UK are frequently contacted by people who have become ill or injured while on holiday. Known as holiday injury compensation claims, this type of litigation is much more common than many would imagine, with (at the time of writing) one UK firm alone currently processing more than 8,000 such claims.
Perhaps the most common kinds of holiday injury claims handled by personal injury solicitors are those that are for different types of stomach upset and food poisoning, often E.coli.
That is why a report in medical journal the Lancet detailing the development of a kind of patch that actually prevents a person developing E.coli is so warmly welcomed by all.
The patch, which contains small amounts of the E.coli bacterium, has so far delivered some outstanding results in preventing E.coli from developing in 75% of volunteers. Even in cases where those with the patch did develop symptoms, they were much less severe than those exhibited by the control group.
In fact, those wearing the patch had an E.coli outlook around five times better than those in the placebo group.
The impact of this patch has the potential to be immense, with stomach cramps and diarrhoea related to E.coli estimated to affect around 27 million travellers worldwide each year.
Dr Richard Dawood, who is a specialist in traveller injury and illness, comments on what the patch may mean for holidaymakers in the future, "E.coli causes an estimated 40% of all travellers' diarrhoea, so this does not offer complete protection.
"However, if you are travelling abroad for commercial reasons, or with the military, it may be worthwhile paying for this sort of treatment.
"If you've paid several thousand pounds to take your family on holiday abroad, every day lost is worth hundreds of pounds, so it could be an advantage here, too."
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