evidence: 1. No one is injecting fruit with HIV-positive blood. This particular urban legend is not a new one, but it got a boost again this week on Facebook: Since the beginning of November, hundreds of people have re-shared a long debunked post about "HIV-positive" oranges, and on Nov. 9, a woman named Anna Aquavia kicked off a new scare about some mysterious villain "injecting blood into bananas." [...] As for the oranges, that rumor started last February, when a woman named Ty Smith claimed that "the immigration services of Algeria" intercepted a batch of Libyan oranges that had been injected with "Hiv & AIDS blood." For one thing, Libya has exported only a negligible number of oranges since 2007, according to the UN, and those have all gone to Egypt. For another, agricultural inspections wouldn’t be handled by immigration. On top of all that, the HIV virus cannot survive outside the human body. From the Centers for Disease Control: