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Title: INTERNET HOAX STRIKES AGAIN; INTERNATIONAL BANANA ASSOCIATION DENOUNCES ONLINE CON Summary: ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb 11, 2000 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- The latest in the outbreak of Internet attacks comes in the form of a hoax involving bananas. This time a report has been spread through E-mail falsely claiming that bananas from Costa Rica are infected with a bacterium that could cause necrotizing fasciitis. The rumor regarding this so-called "flesh-eating" disease and bananas is false and has no scientific or medical basis.

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-- Dee (T1Colt556@aol.com), February 11, 2000

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Whewwww!!!! I'm going to have to apologize to my children....infear that all the bananas in my house could cause my computer to crash...I just feed 7 1/2 pounds of bananas to my family for dinner to finish them off

Now someone tells me the truth...whats this world coming to?

-- SB Ryan G III (sbrg3@juno.com), February 11, 2000.