QuickCheck: Has imported canned fruit been contaminated with blood from AIDS patients?

STORIES and claims of contaminated food tend to go viral rapidly on social media, especially if the claims allege that certain food has been contaminated with an infectious disease.

Such a claim went viral recently, as it was claimed in a viral WhatsApp message that canned fruit imported from Thailand had been contaminated with the blood of 200 factory workers infected with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV).