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Real Pic of Princess Diana Shaking AIDS Patient's Hand Without Gloves?

Written by:
Madison Dapcevich
Oct. 14, 2024 Social media users said the photo was taken when the stigma around HIV was high.
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Did Scientists Genetically Modify Cats To Glow in the Dark?

Written by:
Madison Dapcevich
Nov. 29, 2023 The trait was said to have been passed down to subsequent generations.
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Is California Governor Jerry Brown Allowing HIV-Positive People to Donate Blood?

Written by:
Arturo Garcia
Sept. 18, 2017 Web sites misstate what would happen under a bill that was signed into law on 6 October 2017.
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Did the Trump Administration's Policies Halt a Research Project Seeking an HIV Cure?

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Alex Kasprak
Dec. 11, 2018 A quietly instituted “pause” on the federal procurement of fetal tissue for biomedical research ...
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Did a Young Woman Deliberately Infect 324 Men With HIV?

Written by:
Dan Evon
April 6, 2018 A dubious story is based on a baseless, unverified, and anonymous Facebook post.
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Is Anchor Butter Contaminated with HIV?

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David Emery
March 1, 2018 A new variant of a years-old rumor about a worker adding HIV-infected blood to foods or beverage ...
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Are Cadbury Products Contaminated with HIV?

Written by:
David Mikkelson
Feb. 25, 2018 Rumors that a worker at Cadbury plant was arrested for contaminating the company's products with ...
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Trump Fires All Remaining Members of Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS

Written by:
Alex Kasprak
Dec. 30, 2017 The controversial move followed the highly publicized resignation of six members in August 2017 ...
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Is There a 'New Outbreak' of HPV That 'Kills Faster than AIDS'?

Written by:
Dan MacGuill
Nov. 27, 2017 A fabricated health scare that originated in Africa got a new lease on life in November 2017.
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Did the Man Who Discovered the HIV Virus Confess to 'Inventing' It?

Written by:
Dan MacGuill
June 12, 2017 A bizarre, entirely false story originated on a web site notorious for bizarre, entirely false s ...
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Was Mia Khalifa Diagnosed with HIV?

Written by:
Dan Evon
April 21, 2017 Rumors that the porn star is HIV-positive originated on a fake news web site.
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Warning Issued by Thailand About HIV in Canned Food?

Written by:
Kim LaCapria
Dec. 29, 2016 Age-old rumors about viral contamination of food evolved into a claim that HIV is present in can ...
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Bee Venom Kills HIV

Written by:
Alex Kasprak
Dec. 19, 2016 Preliminary research has shown that a single compound found in bee venom can destroy HIV, but it ...
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600 Veterans Possibly Infected with HIV and Hepatitis at VA Facility in Wisconsin

Written by:
David Emery
Dec. 4, 2016 The VA says there is no indication infections were transmitted by a dentist using unauthorized e ...
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Sex Roulette

Written by:
Kim LaCapria
May 18, 2016 A number of tabloids are reporting rumors that a risky new "sex roulette" trend — involving orgi ...
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South Africa's 'HIV Genital Tattoo' Law

Written by:
Dan Evon
April 19, 2016 A fake news article reported that a new law in South Africa would require people with HIV to ind ...
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Charlie Sheen: I've Been HIV Positive for Four Years

Written by:
Dan Evon
Nov. 17, 2015 Actor Charlie Sheen publicly acknowledged in November 2015 that he has been HIV-positive for fou ...
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Are Discolored Bananas Infected with HIV?

Written by:
Dan Evon David Mikkelson
Nov. 10, 2015 Discolored bananas that have fallen prey to a fungus may be visually unappealing, but they do no ...
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Off the Beaten Tracts

Written by:
Kim LaCapria
Oct. 8, 2015
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Is Pepsi Contaminated with HIV?

Written by:
David Mikkelson
July 14, 2011 Rumors that a worker at a Pepsi or Frooti plant contaminated those beverage products by injectin ...
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