Outbreak! Editor: Part 3
It turns out that all the people affected walk on Chortlington Downs, next to the sea. Ecologists studying the Downs suggest a species of biting insect newly seen on the Downs, possibly because of global warming, might be involved.
Your ace reporter comes back to tell you that there is little evidence that immigrants ever bring in infections. Do you:
(a) Send him away to make something up anyway.
(b) Poke fun at the authorities for catching butterflies in the midst of a serious epidemic.
(c) Attack the Government for cutting support for environmental science when it's obviously essential.
(d) Re-use the picture of Kate Moss.