"Canned fruits in Thailand" is a rumor in Thailand.

 

Food does not spread AIDS; Thailand is investigating rumours.

 

Recently, a "Thai AIDS patients dropping sick blood into canned fruit food" news, said the matter has been "Thai Ministry of Health" confirmed, in order to avoid people to eat infected, Thai supermarkets have a full range of canned goods off shelves. Is it true? People's Daily "certification" column reporters visited Thailand supermarkets, health departments and domestic experts.

 

Canned fruits in Thailand contain HIV?

 

[investigation] official did not release and confirmed the news, canned local canned fruit sold normally.

 

On the afternoon of the 9th, the reporter came to a supermarket downstairs of the shopping mall of "Terminal 21" in Bangkok. The canned fruit shelves were filled with canned fruits of various brands, such as pineapple, lychee, longan, red Maotan and orange. Supermarket manager Oer told reporters that in the past month, she has not received any notice about the canned fruit off the shelves, canned sales as usual. The 27 year old girl in Thailand, who is picking canned food, told reporters that she had never heard of it.

 

Reporters then visited various departments of the Ministry of public health of Thailand, who denied that.

 

"I've never heard of it, and we haven't published it," Kandavas Maliwan, a senior nutritionist at the Department of Health, told reporters. "

 

"This is a rumor. "The director of the Food and Drug Administration, Tiwan Parisiari, told reporters angrily when she heard the news.

 

Tiwan told reporters about the production process of food cans in Thailand: food is first put into iron cans, after at least 2 hours and 80 degrees Celsius pre-cooking process, then extract all the air from the cans, and then sealed. The cans will then be sent to a large reaction tank and sterilized by steam for 30-45 minutes at 125-135 degrees Celsius. The temperature dropped to 25 degrees Celsius in 30 minutes and then sent to the warehouse. The laboratory will take samples to carry out laboratory tests to check the quality and sealing condition of canned food. "Which of these links can help infected people drop toxic blood into sealed cans? "Mention the euphemism.

 

In Thailand local English and Chinese media, reporters did not find anything related to the news. But Brunei's "Borneo Bulletin" website on August 24 published a report entitled "Embassy to expose rumors of HIV-infected food," the report quoted a mobile instant messaging tool WhatsApp in English, the content of the Chinese message circulated on Wechat completely consistent. "The Thai Embassy in Brunei has uncovered the rumor and is coordinating with relevant agencies to identify the source of the rumor," the report said. "

 

Can food infect AIDS?

 

[investigation] AIDS will not be infected by food; it is difficult to survive from the body fluid environment.

 

"It's ridiculous, it's unreasonable," sighs Sumei Nwandi, director of the Department of AIDS, Tuberculosis and Sexually Transmitted Infections of the Department of Disease Control, Ministry of Public Health. After breaking away from human blood, HIV is hard to survive. Moreover, the sweet environment of canned food is simply not suitable for the survival of HIV. "

 

"HIV is transmitted mainly through physical contact, and I have never heard of environmental transmission of AIDS cases. "Anwandi said," as long as the physical contact with AIDS patients, no surgery, no wounds on the body, eating, drinking, shaking hands, hugging and other daily contacts will not spread AIDS. "

 

To this rumor, China's domestic experts also said that the original Ministry of Health has repeatedly refuted the rumor that "eating food that AIDS people have dripped blood causes many people to become infected with AIDS". Scientific evidence shows that HIV can not be transmitted through tableware, drinking water and food.

 

Researcher Wu Zunyou, director of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention of AIDS, said that the spread of AIDS generally requires three basic conditions, first of all, the existence of live viruses, HIV mainly exists in the blood and body fluids of people living with AIDS. Second, infection requires adequate quantities of the virus. Once again, the virus must invade the human body and reproduce in the human body.

 

"AIDS will not be infected by food. "Beijing Youan Hospital Infection Center Chief Physician Guo Caiping said that the confirmed route of AIDS transmission has three: sexual transmission, blood transmission, mother-to-child transmission. Once HIV is separated from the body fluid environment, its survival and pathogenicity will decline. "HIV leaving living blood loses its ability to proliferate first and then dies with the death of blood cells and lymphocytes. "

 

How long can HIV survive? Guo Caiping pointed out that conditions related to temperature, location and so on. Viruses isolated from living cells can survive only 1-2 hours in a dry environment and quickly become inactive and unable to infect.

 

It is understood that HIV is sensitive to sunlight, ultraviolet radiation, high temperature, acid and alkaline environment. Exposure to the outside environment quickly inactivated: 50 degrees Celsius environment 1 hour, 100 degrees Celsius environment 1-2 minutes inactivated.