h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

In 1922 in Lowestoft Suffolk (UK), a particularly rave troop of Suffolk Weevils who had saaved the town from disaster, were paraded through the town, and given a place on the local council.
Unfortunatly, due to local issues of illitracy, no written record of the Weevil feet remains, and the spoken word of stories regarding the situeatioon have been corupted through the passage of time and Weevil kind.

Needless to say, the helpful suffolk Weevil population had saved local inhaitants, by consumming a large assignment of contaminated syrup which had arrieved in the port from a forign, and rather Weevil unfriendly hostile nation. The Weevil eating efforts consummed all ut one container of syrup, which, once tested was found to contain a biologically enginered virus, which would otherwise have infected, and killed all who ate the deadly syrup.