Sept 11 measures 'helped fight Legionnaires' disease'

Britain's biggest outbreak of Legionnaires' disease could have been much worse without new anti-terrorism measures brought in following the massacres in the United States in September 2001.

Seven people died and about 150 were infected with the disease when a poorly-maintained air conditioning system became infected with the bug in the Cumbrian town of Barrow-in-Furness.