Friday, November 21, 2008

Tomato Sauce Infected with HIV+ Blood (S. Africa)

http://www.saps.gov.za/_dynamicModules/internetSite/newsBuild.asp?myURL=879

South African Police Service
21 November 2008

Another hoax e-mail
Tomato sauce infected with HIV+ blood

Pretoria

An e-mail is being widely circulated in which it is claimed that a well-known food chain sent letters out to schools warning about tomato sauce which could have been deliberately contaminated with the blood of an HIV+ person.

This e-mail has been brought to the attention of the South African Police Service and a thorough enquiry has revealed it to be a hoax which, unfortunately, is becoming an urban legend. Similar hoaxes have been discovered on web sites in other countries. [...]

http://www.capetimes.co.za/index.php?fArticleId=4727336

The Cape Times [South Africa]
24 November 2008

Wimpy says contaminated sauce claims are a 'hoax'

Natasha Joseph

FAST-FOOD restaurant chain Wimpy says its food and condiments are entirely safe and has labelled an e-mail which suggests a man was caught putting blood into a tomato-sauce dispenser "a hoax". [...]

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