The myth about onions

By LOH FOON FONG

Ripe onion on a white background

PETALING JAYA: Do onions absorb bacteria and keep us from getting sick?

A WhatsApp message has been circulating for years claiming that onions had saved a farmer from the influenza outbreak that killed 40 million people in 1919.

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