Outline
Circulating ‘warning’ message claims that you should watch out for a ‘killer insect’ that, if touched, ‘spreads virus to the place of bodily contact and circulates the entire human system in minutes’. The warning features an image of the insect along with a picture of a human hand covered with holes in the skin supposedly caused by the virus. A second version with different images simply claims killing the insect with bare hands will infect you within a few minutes.
Brief Analysis
The claims in the messages are nonsense. The holes shown on the hands in the photographs are not the result of a virus caught via touching an insect but rather just special effects created using makeup artist moulding putty. And the pictured insect is just a Giant Waterbug. These insects certainly do not transmit a deadly virus if touched.