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In Death Alley, the silly season has struck already.(Column)
From: The Evening Standard (London, England)
Date: 20020805
Author:Wilson, A.N.
Byline: A.N. WILSON
JOURNALISTS love a good epidemic.
English journalism could be said to have begun with Daniel Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year. Had there been newspapers at the time of the Black Death, the proprietors and editors of the day would have been very happy.
No one underestimates the unpleasantness of legionnaire's disease, which has reached Barrow-in-Furness.
The one man who (at the time of writing) has died of the disease was aged 89 and had been nowhere near the ventilator shaft that is said to have been the source of the deadly water drops, in ...
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