Reports that a man was arrested for injecting Cadbury or Pepsi products with his own HIV-infected blood have tenaciously permeated social media for several years. The reports are false. The man in the photo is Sadiq Ogwuche, arrested in 2014 for his role in organizing a bombing in Nigeria earlier that year and has no connection to Cadbury or Pepsi. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Public Health Agency of Canada also confirmed that HIV cannot be transmitted via food or beverages.
Depending on the post, the information is said to have been “shown yesterday” either on the BBC or on Sky News, two British news networks. However, a search on their respective websites found no stories involving Pepsi or Cadbury and the HIV virus.Although the photo used to illustrate the post is real, the man escorted by two Interpol officers was not arrested for contaminating food or soda products.
A handout photo taken and released by the National Information Centre on July 15, 2014 shows Aminu Ogwuche , one of the alleged masterminds of the Nyanya-Abuja bomb explosion of April 14 - which was claimed by Boko Haram Islamists, being guarded by Nigerian Interpol Security Officers upon his arrival at the presidential wing of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja after being extradited from Sudan. On Twitter, Cadbury’s South Africa branch also pointed out the hoax’s inaccuracy.
The hoax circulating about a Cadbury employee contaminating chocolate with HIV infected blood is exactly that - a false hoax.
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