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That is Satanism, a religious group says on its Facebook page , claiming that fruit is being injected with HIV-infected blood by groups of people with the aim of killing millions of people around the world. The post by the Spiritual Warfare and Tactics Squad warns people not to eat any fruit with a red weird colour. It’s illustrated by two pictures: one shows a banana being injected with a fluid that looks like blood. The other shows a peeled banana with a red colour inside. Hoax debunked three years ago The post was flagged by Facebook users in Nigeria. Africa Check has found a number of versions of the claim. It has been so popular it was debunked by Snopes in November 2015 and Hoax-Slayer in February 2016. This form of reddish discolouration in bananas has nothing to do with blood of any sort, Snopes explained . It’s a hallmark of fungal or bacterial diseases that affect bananas grown in some areas and can cause their centres to turn dark red. The US Centers for Disease Control states that HIV does not live for long outside the body. And the virus can’t be caught from food, even if the food contains small amounts of HIV-infected blood. - Allwell Okpi (24/10/2018)
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