from The Boston Globe
 

Family sues over man's death  by ant stings in nursing home               Associated Press, 11/07/98 11:41                JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - The family of a 66-year-old woman               who died after being stung by hundreds of fire ants in her               nursing home bed is suing the home and its pest control               company.                Nell Rein was found Aug. 30 covered with ants at Silver Cross               Nursing home. She died four days later from heart failure               caused by physiological stress, according to her physician.                State health officials said in October they found no evidence of               negligence.                Family lawyer Shane Langston, who filed suit Friday against               the home and Ace Pest Control, says the state's report was               incomplete and that ants also were found in other patients'               beds at the home in Brookhaven.                Ace general manager George Lee said the home's contract               expired two years ago, and since then his company has been               serving it on a month-by-month basis and is responsible only               for the building's exterior.                Nursing home administrator Gussie Ashley would not               comment.                        - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -  BACK to Animal Attack Files