{"id":862,"date":"2019-04-06T19:33:27","date_gmt":"2019-04-06T19:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/?p=862"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T17:00:00","slug":"AIDS-Warning:-Worker-Adds-HIV-Positive-Blood-to-Pepsi?","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/?p=862","title":{"rendered":"AIDS Warning: Worker Adds HIV-Positive Blood to Pepsi?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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AIDS Warning: Worker Adds HIV-Positive Blood to Pepsi?<\/h1>\n

Text messages and social media posts warn people not to drink Pepsi products for the next couple weeks because an HIV-positive worker added his blood to the company’s products.<\/h4>\n
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Pepsi products have been contaminated by a disgruntled worker who added blood containing human immunodeficiency virus to the company’s drinks.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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False warnings about various foods or drinks being contaminated with the blood of a worker who has AIDS or HIV have been circulating for years, but there’s never been any truth to them.<\/p>\n

Variations of these rumors have circulated all over the world, and they all follow the same general format: an HIV-positive worker added their blood to products during the manufacturing, bottling, or packing process.<\/p>\n

This roughly translated version surfaced in Asia in 2009:<\/p>\n

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for d next few days, do not drink any product from \u00a0pepsi company like pepsi, tropicana juice, slice, 7up , coca cola, etc,,as \u00a0a worker from the company has added his blood contaminated with HIV. \u00a0watch NDtv …please 4ward this 2 every 1 u care about…..ok. Please \u00a0note seriously.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Different versions of the false warning have been debunked all over the world. In 2011, Pepsi representatives in Asia debunked the above version.<\/a> \u00a0Pepsi uses a hands-free production process (eliminating the risk for contamination), the rep noted, and AIDS is impossible through food and drink products, as Asia News Network<\/em> reported:<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u0153This SMS started circulating in India in July and even there, no one \u00a0believed it,” she said yesterday.<\/p>\n

Hemalatha said Pepsi products were produced according to the strictest \u00a0safety standards and were safe for consumption.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It is scientifically proven that HIV cannot be transmitted via food or \u00a0drinks anyway,” she said, adding that different versions of the same \u00a0rumour had made the rounds before.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

A few years later, a new version of the warning surfaced in the United Kingdom. That version, which singled out Pepsi products in particular, is the one that has been most widely circulated in English-speaking countries:<\/p>\n

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important message from metropolitan \u00a0police to all citizen of united kingdom. for the next few weeks do not drink \u00a0any products from pepsi , as a worker from the company has added his \u00a0blood contaminated with hiv (aids). it was shown yesterday on sky news. \u00a0please forward this message to the people who you care.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Even if these claims were true, as the Pepsi rep noted above it’s not possible to transmit AIDS or HIV through food or drink.<\/p>\n

As we previously reported in our investigation into (false) claims that blood oranges had been laced with HIV-positive blood<\/a>, the nonprofit Aid for AIDS describes the threat as nonexistent<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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HIV is a very fragile virus outside of the body. The HIV virus needs the \u00a0human body as its host. The life span of HIV outside of the body has not \u00a0been determined. However, we know that HIV needs its host cell (a \u00a0human), the body temperature, and the chemistry of the blood to survive. \u00a0Out of the body, HIV is out of its environment. As the blood dries, the HIV \u00a0will die. In areas like a syringe or on a razor in a medicine cabinet, HIV \u00a0would probably live longer because of less airflow and it’s a more moist \u00a0temperature controlled area.
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Just remember, outside of the body HIV can’t survive. In minutes it will \u00a0die and be harmless, but Universal Precautions should always be used.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Given all that, we’re calling this one “fiction,” as it is resoundingly not true.<\/p>\n

<\/br><\/br> Original Source : https:\/\/www.truthorfiction.com\/pepsi-worker-aids-hiv-warning\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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