Seductress Spreads AIDS (Saudi Arabia)

http://www.saudigazette.com.sa/index.cfm?method=home.regcon&contentid=20120627128270

Saudi Gazette [Saudi Arabia]

27 June 2012

AIDS femme fatale is a myth: Police

TABUK -- Tabuk police denied recent rumors of a young woman who has been spreading the AIDS virus by seducing men. The woman, said to be a Syrian national who entered the Kingdom illegally, was alleged to have lured men and teenagers into hotels and furnished apartments with the aim of transmitting the virus to them.

According to police, the rumor spread via social networking sites. The official spokesman for Tabuk Police, Maj. Khaid Ghabban, said police investigated the rumors and were led to a dead end.

“This is purely fictional and not reality,” said Ghabban while urging people to verify stories before passing them on as fact and contact authorities for accurate information if they were in doubt. -- SG

AIDS Infectors (Beijing)

http://english.cri.cn/6909/2011/12/01/1461s669797.htm

CRIEnglish.com [China]
1 December 2011

HIV-infection Rumor Lead to Detention in Beijing

Xinhua

A man has been put under criminal detention for spreading an HIV-infection scare, police in Beijing said on Thursday.

The Beijing municipal public security bureau said in a statement that it was informed Tuesday that a Sina Weibo blogger used the service to spread an HIV-infection rumor.

The microblog said "several people have entered Beijing with needle tubes filled with the HIV virus," and "there are people who have been pricked by needles of AIDS infectors."

Beijing police authorities later confirmed the information was false and detained writer of the microblog, a man surnamed Li, on Wednesday afternoon.

AIDS Patients Drip Blood on Others' Food (China)

http://english.cri.cn/6909/2011/11/17/2724s667553.htm

China Radio International
17 November 2011

AIDS in Poisoned Food Rumor Debunked

The Ministry of Health has dismissed a rumor which indicated that several people have been infected with HIV/AIDS from eating food contaminated by HIV/AIDS infected blood, People.com.cn reports.

The Department of Public Security of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region also said Wednesday through its official microblog "Pingantianshan", or "the Peaceful Snow Mountain", that they have not found any cases of HIV/AIDS patients from Xinjiang or elsewhere dripping their blood into food to infect others. [...]

http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90882/7648910.html

People's Daily Online [China]
18 November 2011

Xinjiang AIDS attack rumor denied

By Huang Jingjing (Global Times)

Both public security and health authorities on Wednesday refuted a rumor claiming that a large group of HIV/AIDS carriers had infiltrated large cities and intended to transmit the virus by contaminating food sources.

The rumor, that went viral, claimed that some 20,000 HIV-positive sufferers from the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region had gone to major cities across the country and laced restaurant food with their blood.

It said those attackers were incited by separatists and terrorists, and warned people to not eat Xinjiang food. [...]

Hair Extensions Cause AIDS

http://www.observer.org.sz/index.php?news=22697

The Swazi Observer [Swaziland]
23 March 2011

Killing this `Urban Myth': Hair extensions cannot give you AIDS

with James Hall

There is already too much hysteria surrounding AIDS. More false rumours and misinformation have the potential of wreaking tremendous damage in this country that is already so inflicted.

Consider this week's claim being spread over the Internet locally, which "reports" that inexpensive hair extensions can cause AIDS. [...]

AIDS Mary Hoax (Detroit)

http://detnews.com/article/20100115/METRO01/1150368/1409/METRO/Video-of-woman-who-claims-to-have-spread-AIDS-stirs-panic

The Detroit News
15 January 2010

Video of woman who claims to have spread AIDS stirs panic

Oralandar Brand-Williams / The Detroit News

Detroit -- A viral video of a woman claiming to have intentionally infected several Metro Detroit men with the virus that causes AIDS has prompted frantic phone calls to the Detroit Police Department. [...]

http://detnews.com/article/20100115/METRO/1150438/AIDS-video-a-hoax--woman-admits

The Detroit News
15 January 2010

AIDS video a hoax, woman admits

Oralandar Brand-Williams / The Detroit News

Detroit -- The woman who caused a stir on the Internet this week with a video in which she says she has infected more than 500 people with HIV told The Detroit News today that she does not have the virus.

"I don't have AIDS," Jackie Braxton, 23, said in an interview. [...]

http://www.mediatakeout.com/2010/38185-killer_beauty_woman_admits_to_having_aids____claims_that_shes_infected_hundreds_of_men_with_the_virus____and_shes_naming_names_mto_exclusive.html

Mediatakeout.com

KILLER BEAUTY!!! WOMAN ADMITS TO HAVING AIDS...CLAIMS THAT SHE'S INFECTED HUNDREDS OF MEN WITH THE VIRUS...AND SHE'S NAMING NAMES!!!

http://www.freep.com/article/20100115/NEWS01/100115022/?imw=Y
The Detroit Free Press
15 January 2010
Woman: AIDS video hoax meant to be public service
By NAOMI R. PATTON and TAMMY STABLES BATTAGLIA

Abduction Panic (Jamaica, 2008)

http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/westernnews/html/20081029T200000-0500_141938_OBS__WE_DON_T_KNOW_ABOUT_THAT_.asp

Jamaica Observer
30 October 2008

'We don't know about that'
Westmoreland police can't confirm kidnapping rumours

BY HORACE HINES
Observer West reporter

The Westmoreland police say they have no evidence to substantiate rumours that four HIV/AIDS-stricken men are kidnapping students from a number of schools. [...]

http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20081104/lead/lead4.html
Jamaica Gleaner
4 November 2008
Students fearful
Shelly-Ann Thompson

A STATE of fear has gripped young professionals-in-training at the two major universities of the Corporate Area in light of the recent attacks on the island's women and children. [...]

http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20081107/lead/lead1.html
Jamaica Gleaner
7 November 2008
Fear grips schools - Students dread abduction; education ministry establishes security measures
Edmond Campbell and Petrina Francis, Staff Reporters

http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20081108/lead/lead1.html
Jamaica Gleaner
8 November 2008
False reports strain JCF: Abductions on the decrease - police
Shelly-Ann Thompson, Staff Reporter

http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20081109/lead/lead1.html
Jamaica Gleaner
9 November 2008
Hunt on for abductors: 'Bigga' Ford heads task force to nab rapists, criminals
Glenroy Sinclair, Assignment Coordinator

http://www.caribbean360.com/News/Caribbean/Stories/2008/11/12/NEWS0000006558.html

Caribbean360.com [Barbados]
12 November 2008

Jamaica PM appeals for calm amid abduction claims

KINGSTON, Jamaica, November 12, 2008 - Jamaica's Prime Minister Bruce Golding has appealed for calm in the wake of reports of the abduction of children from schools across the island and has sought to reassure the country that the security forces have stepped up their vigilance.

He said he was assured at an emergency meeting with the Ministers of Education and National Security, the High command of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF), the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) and other stakeholders that ongoing investigations so far show that "there is a significant gap between the reality and the perception". [...]

http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/columns/html/20081113T220000-0500_142557_OBS_SHADOW_OF_THE__BLACK_HEART_MAN__.asp

Jamaica Observer
14 November 2008

Shadow of the 'Black Heart Man'

BARBARA GLOUDON

FACT OR FICTION, rumour or reality? Reports of abductions of children and young women are reaching epidemic proportions. [...]

A certain email now in circulation claims that a family, while enjoying the simple pleasure of dining out on hamburgers, were set upon by young men who took away two young girls and raped them. [...]

FINGERS ARE POINTED at different sources. Taxi-men, in particular, are getting a bad rap (not that some of them haven't earned it), as it is widely held that some, at least, are involved in the evil. [...]

There's also the allegation that the attack on youngsters has links to gang initiation rites. No evidence has been adduced that this is true. [...]

AIDS Prickers, Trinidad, 1986

http://www.trinidadexpress.com/index.pl/article_opinion?id=161306011

Trinidad Express [Port of Spain, Trinidad]
9 April 2008

Getting under their skin

Courtenay Bartholomew

[...] Now, in the early period of the epidemic when it was foolishly thought that AIDS only occurred in the homosexual community (in February 1986, a few days before the Carnival), there was a widespread and false rumour that certain homosexual men were pricking revellers with needles at public fetes. The rumour quickly reached the Trinis in "Brooklyn" and everyone feared that it would stop the Carnival (as if that could needle anybody into stopping the Carnival. Certainly not rain!). There was national panic. The press immediately rang me and a front page headline of the Trinidad Guardian of February 7, 1986 read: "Bartholomew scotches rumours that needle pricks can cause AIDS.'' It was eventually a fearless Carnival. [...]

AIDS Toothpicks; Legend Trip Shooting

http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90776/6244919.html

People's Daily [China]
21 August 2007

East China police detain 60 people for spreading rumors, threats

[...] On July 11, a text message began circulating in Jiangsu, claiming victims of full-blown AIDS were spreading the disease by using toothpicks at local restaurants and returning them to the containers on tables. The message warned recipients against using toothpicks in Jiangsu. [...]

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http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Spooky-House-Shooting.html

New York Times
21 August 2007

'Spooky House' Case Splits Ohio Suburb

WORTHINGTON, Ohio (AP) -- It has come to be known as the Spooky House Incident: A group of teenagers in this quaint older suburb who tried to scare themselves on a ''ghost hunt'' and a recluse who responded with gunfire, leaving two lives wrecked.

A pretty blonde high school cheerleader, Rachel Barezinsky, is crippled for life. Allen S. Davis, roused from an eccentric but otherwise unoffending existence, was sentenced last month to 19 years in prison for what he describes as defending his home. [...]