A collage of photos that show an apple & orange cut into several slices with one having a discolored portion is spreading virally on Facebook.
The caption reads:
The immigration services of Mzansi recovered a large quantity of these oranges coming from Limpopo. These oranges were injected with positive tested HIV & AIDS blood."
The claim that oranges are being used to spread the HIV/AIDS virus is illogical since the virus cannot survive outside the human body.
The South African Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) notes:
Except for rare cases in which children consumed food that was pre-chewed by an HIV-infected caregiver, HIV has not been spread through food. The virus does not live long outside the body. You cannot get it from consuming food handled by an HIV-infected person; even if the food contained small amounts of HIV-infected blood or semen, exposure to the air, heat from cooking, and stomach acid would destroy the virus."