At last an expert speaks. "It's just like a cold says girl, 12," according to the Daily Mail front page. The paper had tracked down a flu victim not yet under contract to Max Clifford, suffering from the "killer virus" that has brought imminent death to, variously, each school in Britain, 94,000 Londoners, every pig in Egypt and, says a hysterical virologist, "the whole of humanity".
As reporters gathered around the London deathbed of Sophie de Salis, she whispered, "I had a cough and was under the weather … but really it was just like a normal cold." After a day off school she was feeling better. The reporters raced for the phones. Sophie's sniffle echoed around the world.
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