Aids Reported To Have Been Contracted From Cut Fruit

[swain]

Reported at MThai.com

Buying Cut fruit -Beware - better cut it yourself.Importance: HighIt happens in Singapore - Waterloo Street.A 10 year old boy, had eaten pineapple about 15 days back, and fell sick,from the day he had eaten. Later when he had his Health check done...Doctors diagnosed that he had AIDS. His parents couldn't believe it..Then the entire family under went a checkup...None of them suffered from Aids.So the doctors checked again with the boy ifHe had eaten out...The boy said 'yes'. He had pineapple that evening.immediately a group from the hospital went to the pineapple vendor to check.They found the pineapple seller had a cut on his finger while cutting the pineapple; his blood had spread into the fruit.When they had his blood checked...the guy was suffering from AIDS...but he himself was NOT aware.Unfortunately the boy is suffering from it now.

[patklang]

Is that an april the first joke.

Couldnt see that happening as when the blood comes into contact with oxygen surely it would die.

[Jingthing]

Hmmm. What I know about the HIV virus this is theoretically possible. I think the virus does survive in blood outside the body for some time. I would think eating it would not be a usual method of transmission because stomach acid breaks things down but a person could have a cut in their gums.

Some people do get an early "HIV flu" soon after infection. I don't think it happens the same day as infection though, so overall this story sounds very fishy to put it mildly.

Edited March 16, 2009 by Jingthing

[Ijustwannateach]

This is not a news source. This is an HIV myth link to another forum, both of which are against forum rules. Thread closed.