If you come into a hospital normal...deliver a baby normally, and then, within 24 hours catch a flesh eating disease, I would confidentally assume it was the hospital's fault. That's why they need to see who else had that disease. It's a natural request and they should get it. They don't need to know names, they just need to know if others had it in that hospital at the same time she was admitted.
It might behoove the lawyer to find out who got fired from the hospital in the month after all of this happened. My guess is that someone did not follow procedures properly which resulted in the infection. Once the hospital determined how she got infected, they in most likelyhood fired the responsible party and had them sign a non-disclosure form on the way out the door.
You are assuming incorrectly.
Being a nurse and having taken care of a patient with the flesh eating STREPTOCCUS...I was scared to death as was everyone else that took care of them.
We scrubbed meticuluously, gloved gowned and left everything in the isolation room.
We didn't want it ourselves and didn't want to take it home to our families.
MRSA...Staph...is endemic in the hospital.
Flesh eating Strep is not...It is community acquired and statistically she is far more likely to brought it in with her.
Most all hospitals have Mersa and other hospital borne infections.