Culpability of person who infects another with a disease or virus?

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Thurs. 10/03/25 12:59 EDT
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Assuming we absolutely know and can prove:

  1. H1N1 exists AND
  2. H1N1 is communicable AND
  3. H1N1 “causes” death AND
  4. person B died from H1N1 AND
  5. it “came from” person A,

then at what point does person A’s behavior become “criminal”?

As an extreme example, let’s suppose person A was just sitting on his porch, breathing, and a lone H1N1 virus escaped his nostrils, was carried by the wind into a passing car and inhaled by that car’s driver, person B, who consequently got sick and died, and we had some way of objectively establishing all of this.

Would person A’s behavior be “criminal”?

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