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On or around 3 December 2015, the web site Huzlers published an article titled 17 Year-old Does 'Condom Challenge' With Used Condom Gets Herpes, saying: For unknown reasons, the weeks-old claim shot to the top of Facebook's What's Trending list on 22 December 2015: The condom challenge involves filling condoms with water, and then dropping them, or having them dropped, on your head. The Hector Cruz claim wasn't Huzlers' first attempt to capitalize on the briefly socially viral trend. The web site also published a fabricated tale of a teen who died engaging in the activity. Huzlers is well-known as a fake news site, and at the bottom of every page a disclaimer reads: Earlier Huzlers hoaxes included claims that semen was found in Starbucks drinks nationally, that McDonald's used human meat in their food, that Chipotle was busted serving cat and dog meat, and that an Ebola victim rose from the dead as a zombie. Satire notwithstanding, the likelihood of contracting herpes from contact with a surface or object is infinitesimally low.
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