Many hoax messages have been circulating on the internet claiming that a Pepsi worker has infected an undetermined number of bottles with the HIV/AIDS virus.
Examples of the messages are given below:
Please do not drink any Pepsi soda, a worker from the company has put blood contaminated with aids inside the bottles. Please forward.
And …..
DONT DRINK PEPSI PRODUCTS A MAN AT THE PEPSI PLANT PUT BLOOD CONTAMINATED WITH AIDS IN THE BOTTLES SOMEONE COMMENTED WITH THE WEB SITE THAT TALKS ABOUT THIS ISSUE........................
Beware! It’s a Cyber World: Explanation - - Pepsi Soda Contaminated with HIV/AIDS Virus
Such baseless stories are completely unconfirmed and unjustified. Many large companies such as Pepsi and McDonalds are the subject to nasty rumours like this everyday, and this one appears to be a remaining of an earlier rumour that claimed it was bottles of Ketchup that were contaminated with the HIV or AIDS virus.
The one who generated this hoax might have gotten the idea from a question put up by someone named as Amanda in a medical related forum ‘MedHelp’ in which she asked:
“i know this is a very stupid question but if someone infected with hiv put his blood in ur drink and u drank it like a minute after he put his blood in the drink , is this a risk , and does the amount of blood change the risk rate , if u have cutinside ur mouth ..”
It has been an established fact that HIV transmission takes place in following circumstance:
1. Unprotected Sexual Intercourse with an infected partner
2. Sharing contaminated syringes and needles
4. From infected mother to child during pregnancy
For educational purposes, be mindful that HIV is a virus and it is highly improbable that it could live very long outside of a human body. The Centers for Disease Control has emphatically stated that people cannot acquire HIV through restaurant food. They have said:
HIV does not live long outside the body. Even if small amounts of HIV-infected blood or semen was consumed, exposure to air, heat from cooking, and stomach acid would destroy the virus. Therefore, there is no risk of contracting HIV from eating food.
Since the rumours fail to identify any sources, evidence or any other reasonwhy they should be taken seriously, they should be discarded as yet another baseless attack on an otherwise innocent company.
13 comments:
Where is the point number# 3.
Point number 3 got AIDS and died. Not joking, watch news!
THANKYOU people are so dumb and nieve, and believe whatever they see online. They dont even do any research to see if it is true or not.
Good Observation :)
jo bhi ho
wese bhi ye softdrinks achhe nahi hote
research is not the job of every one, we must say that responsible pesonnels must not be bolshie, they must play their role, either this is a rumour or reality. Only
a responsible person can deny this, not a streetman.
if it is not a source of infection, but the practice is still bullshit, if its real.
(posibilities of realty are there, as everything is posible in our state)
research is not the job of every one, we must say that responsible pesonnels must not be bolshie, they must play their role, either this is a rumour or reality. Only
a responsible person can deny this, not a streetman.
if it is not a source of infection, but the practice is still bullshit, if its real.
(posibilities of realty are there, as everything is posible in our state )
The Message / SMS floating regarding Pepsi and Tropicana being contaminated with HIV AIDS is completely absurd and baseless. Pepsi and Tropicana are 100% safe. All pepsico products are manufactured in fully automated plants, untouched by hand, that maintain global standards of quality and excellence. There are several third party consumer protection websites debunking the rumour, such as snopes.com, urbanlegends.about.com and hoax-slayer.com; please see the link - http://www.hoax-slayer.com/pepsi-hiv-hoax.shtml
so what if we stop drinking these two, what difference will it make in our lives. or are we addicted to it?
what are the quality standards? self maintained or cross checked by any responsible authority?
I guess everyone is completely aware of food standards and health standards in our country.
wese bhi Pepsi is a company owned by anti-muslim countries:)
Whatever it may be, even if the aids blood is not contaminated, so what? Is it a must to drink it compulsorily?.
The only advice I wish to u people is..
Don't drink cool drinks like pepsi, fanta,etc
They are totally bad for health. Instead, drink juices of apple, oranges, grapes etc. They are natural and good for health
H.O.A.X!!!!!!!
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