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An image purportedly showing a cockroach in a chest x-ray was shared by the Facebook page Let's Enjoy Zimbabwe on 10 April 2017 along with the claim that the gruesome discovery was made at the Rusape General hospital in Zimbabwe: Both this image and story are fake. Variations of this story have been circulating for several years. In 2012, for instance, the University Of Jokes Facebook page shared a joke with a nearly identical premise, only the patient was from Ghana and not Zimbabwe: Although it's unclear when this image first accompanied the health care joke, the original chest x-ray did not feature a cockroach. This x-ray was taken in 1954 and showed Marilyn Monroe's chest after she was admitted to Cedars of Lebanon Hospital for surgery for endometriosis. A set of three x-ray images from this hospital visit were sold at auction in 2010 for $45,000:
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