Story Of The Day: Potting Compost Gives You Legionnaire’s Disease
SCARE Story of the Day: Potting Compost Gives You Legionnaire’s Disease:
August-September are the Dog Days for journos. Nothing happens when the UK population holidays.
News gets tight and silly stories appear. This one dates from MARCH and only just surfaces in the spiked and dross rubbish heap which makes it Dog Day front page newsworthy.
“Health warnings are to be put on bags of potting compost after a Scottish gardener caught Legionnaire’s disease through an open wound,’ says today’s Herald.
“The 67-year-old was infected through a cut in his hand after opening a bag of compost in March and three other Scottish cases of the same strand of the disease in 2008 and 2009.
“Legionnaire’s has been linked to gardening in several countries, including the United States and Holland, but the four Scots cases are the first in the UK.”
Tony Blair has not yet accepted overall responsibility (but will if there’s a death toll) and Scottish Nationalists remain tight-lipped while wearing surgical masks (fashion accessory championed by Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi). – AGW
Posted: 3rd, September 2010 | In: Reviews Comment | TrackBack | Permalink
