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On 1 December 2015, the web site Now8News published an article reporting that the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) had issued a warning about used condoms being repurposed as hairbands: The CDC has not issued a warning about condoms being repurposed as hair ties. The above-quoted article is another clickbait story fabricated by the fake news site Now8News. Although Now8News's articles are usually quickly dismissed as fiction, there was an element of truth to this rumor. In 2007, prophylactic hair ties were discovered in two cities in China: It's important to note that the hairbands sold in China in 2007 were not made from used condoms. Instead, the hair ties were made with new prophylactics that were recycled after they failed to meet quality standards during manufacturing. In sum, while hair ties made with recycled condoms once circulated in China, the claims made in the Now8Newsarticle (that the CDC issued a warning to US residents and that the hair bands were made with used condoms) are false.
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