The malaria parasite is not discriminating in who it infects as Piers Morgan tweeted earlier today; unfortunately he wasn’t entirely accurate with his facts.
Having just taken over from Larry King on CNN, Piers Morgan is difficult to escape if you’re living in the States. He is also a prolific tweeter and yesterday managed to cause a hoopla when he posted the following "BREAKING NEWS: George Clooney has contracted malaria following recent trip to Sudan”.
The trouble was that although the Hollywood A Lister had indeed contracted malaria on a trip to Africa, he had done so in January and was completely over the illness.
Clooney’s representative managed to make an important point, however, when he spoke about the actor’s recovery "This illustrates how with proper medication, the most lethal condition in Africa, can be reduced to a bad ten days instead of a death sentence."
Pier Morgan reporting inaccurate news stories- who would have thought it?