True or Not: Claims of HIV contamination in Thai canned foods baseless


KUALA LUMPUR: Health director-general Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah has rubbished claims that canned fruits from Thailand contain Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV).

He said HIV lived in human body fluid and not in canned food which had undergone high temperature heat treatment.

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