Can someone get infected these types of disease if he/she eats foods (from restaurants or cafes) like salad, fresh fruits or fruit juices or sweet dishes where heat is not involved. Recently I got an e-mail saying that a boy got infected with AIDS after eating pipeapple which he bought on his way home from a vendor (the vendor is an AID patient and he had a cut on his finger while cutting the pineapple and his blood spread into the fruit)
2007-11-26 18:20:36 · 8 answers · asked by emeraldinuae 1 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Infectious Diseases
http://www.snopes.com/horrors/food/pineapple.asp
This story is false.
2007-11-26 18:31:06 · answer #1 · answered by the_vandalin 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hepatitis and tuberculosis - yes. But in the modern day there is a cure for both. Sure they are nasty, but I wouldn't lose my sleep over it.
AIDS - highly unlikely. if that guy had a cut on his hand, and spread some fresh blood on the fruit, and the boy had a cut in his mouth and ate the fruit immediately, then maaaaybe. But that's such an unlikely chain of events. In the same way, a brick might separate itself from the wall of a building, fall and hit us on the head. But they usually don't. This story is made up. Think of it this way: doctors usually live into old age. They are in contact with patients all the time. What are their odds and what are yours.
2007-11-27 02:30:05 · answer #2 · answered by Snowflake 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
To the best of my knowledge, the AIDS virus dies with 5 minutes with out a human host, so I believe this to be false. Hepatitis A is spread airborne so this might be true, but only from type A, although there are numerous types of it. And TB is spread by contact of the person.
2007-11-27 02:36:18 · answer #3 · answered by babyblue218513 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
TB is an airborne disease.
Hepatitis B & C spread through blood, not food (Hep. A spread through fecal - oral way).
AIDS spread through body fluid, but HIV die at uncondusive situation within 30 sec to 5 minutes.
Pineapple is one of those not condusive situation, because it's acid condition.
It's a junk email.
2007-11-27 02:45:25 · answer #4 · answered by . 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
that is just silly. you catch hiv from blood to blood infection . the only way this could happen is if there was a massive amount of blood and the boy had a wound in his mouth
2007-11-27 02:30:40 · answer #5 · answered by Chris E 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no blood dies as soon as its air born unless he cut his finger off its fine if you didnt see blood all over it its good and if it was covered in blood why would it be eaten?
2007-11-27 02:30:10 · answer #6 · answered by Angela D 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
all i can add is snowflak and jo were both right that e-mail was a junk.....not a possible means of communicating the disease.......
2007-11-27 02:58:17 · answer #7 · answered by junjun 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes in any way if blood transfer takes place .
2007-11-27 02:30:28 · answer #8 · answered by Hussain S 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋