Detector: child did not get HIV when eating pineapple

On Facebook there are publications that say that a 10-year-old boy in Barranquilla was “diagnosed with AIDS” after eating a slice of pineapple containing the blood of a person with HIV (1, 2).But it is false. HIV, the virus that can lead to AIDS, is not transmitted by eating foods manipulated by a person living with HIV.The Lie Detector found that Animal Político's colleagues denied publications (1, 2, 3) that said the same, but claimed that the…

There is a post on social media that says that “a 10-year-old child would have been infected with AIDS after eating anana.” The fruit, supposedly, contained