Infected Bananas hoax
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From: | Tim Morken <timcdc@hotmail.com> |
To: | gentras@vetmed.auburn.edu, histonet@pathology.swmed.edu |
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Histonetters,
I've had a few queries about the infected bananas email chain letter that is
going around now.
The CDC has a web page denying the existance of infected bananas.
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/banana.htm
Tim Morken, B.A., EMT(MSA), HTL(ASCP)
Infectious Disease Pathology
Centers for Disease Control
MS-G32
1600 Clifton Rd.
Atlanta, GA 30333
USA
email: tim9@cdc.gov
timcdc@hotmail.com
Phone: (404) 639-3964
FAX: (404)639-3043
----Original Message Follows----
From:
To: timcdc@hotmail.com
Subject: Fwd: Infected Bananas
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 16:33:54 -0600 (CST)
>
Mr. Morken is this true?
>Infected Bananas
>
>FROM THE CDC. (Center for Disease Control In Atlanta, Georgia)
>
>Warning:
>
>Several shipments of bananas from Costa Rica have been infected with
>necrotizing fasciitis, otherwise known as flesh eating bacteria.
>Recently this disease has decimated the monkey population in Costa Rica.
>
>We are now just learning that the disease has been able to graft itself
>to the skin of fruits in the region, most notably the Banana which is
>Costa Rica 's largest export.
>
>Until this finding scientists were not sure how the.infection was being
>transmitted. It is advised not to purchase Bananas for the nextthree
>weeks as this is the period of time for which bananas that have been
>shipped to the US with the possibility of carrying this disease.
>
>If you have eaten a banana In the last 2-3 days and come down with a
>fever followed by a skin infection seek "Medical Attention"!!! The
>skin infection fi6m~ necrotizing fasciitis is very painful and eats two
>to
>three centimeters of flesh per hour. Amputation is likely, death
>is possible.. If you are more than an hour from a medical center burning,
>cutting the flesh ahead of the infected area is advised to help slow the
>spread of the infection. The FDA has been reluctant to issue a country
>wide warning because of fear nationwide panic. They have secretly admitted
>that they feel upwards -20 of 15,000 Americans will be affected
>by this but that these are acceptable numbers. Please forward this to as
>many people you care about as possible as we do not feel 15,000
>people is an acceptable number.
>
>Manheim Research Institute
>Center for Disease Control
>Atlanta Georgia
>
>JNP 000 12a7.5la5. 637b-
>Encl-forwarded message
>
>2 of 3
>
>2/21/00 2:00 PM
>
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