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On 20 March 2016, the Now8News web site published an article reporting that a woman claiming to be pregnant and in distress had a dead kitten removed from her vaginal canal in the emergency room: The report was reproduced by dozens of fly-by-night viral news sites after its initial appearance: The article (like all of Now8News' content) was entirely fabricated. Now8News is a clickbait fake news site that masquerades as a local television news outlet's web presence. The photograph purportedly depicting the dead kitten in a surgical environment was in fact a stock image of surgeons' tools, blurred to suggest the original photo contained something graphic (it did not): Previous Now8News hoax articles (often replicated by other viral news sites) include similar claims a man had sexual relations with a pig in a Walmart bathroom, aborted fetuses were discovered in McDonald's Chicken McNuggets, Walmart bananas were contaminated with a deadly parasitic worm, a woman engaged in a sex act with a sausage at a Walmart, a separate woman was arrested for sampling feminine hygiene items in an aisle at a Walmart, a man fed his unfaithful fiancee's remains to her unsuspecting parents, and a woman gave birth to twins in a casket after being buried alive by her husband.
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