AIDS: Dying 'of' Ignorance or Dying 'with' Ignorance?

If you are British and of a certain age, you’ll remember the doomily portentous 1986/7 AIDS warning campaign promoted by the UK government.

The slogan ran ‘AIDS: Don’t Die of Ignorance.’

Here’s the most memorable ad. It featured the grave, gravelly voice of John Hurt, warning:

‘There is now a danger that has become a threat to us all. It is a deadly diseas…