In our weekly feature, we look back through the pages of the Lynn News from September 1-7, 2002 as well as a picture from 1984… The killer seal virus PDV has wiped out five times more animals in The Wash than anywhere else in the UK. According to figures released from the Sea Mammal Research Unit at St Andrew’s University in Edinburgh, 408 animals have been reported dead and 334 of these were from England and, particularly, The Wash area. Some 39 seals have been sent for post mortem and of these 13 have been confirmed positive for the phocine distemper virus (PDV) and all the positive cases ca…