I first worked out what was going on when I got a phone call from a friend who works as an undercover journalist for television. ‘I just got a job as a cleaner to take some MRSA swabs for my filthy hospital superbug scandal,’ he said, ‘but they all came back negative. What am I doing wrong?’ Happy to help, I explained that MRSA doesn’t survive well on windows and doorknobs. The stories he had seen elsewhere were either rigged or rigged.
