evidence: A viral message on WhatsApp claims that the Hyderabad police have warned the citizens on the ill-effects of consumption of ‘soft drinks’ as an employee working at a bottling unit has mixed blood infected with a dangerous virus called Ebola to the beverages. [...] The message reads, "Please forward this information Hyderabad police all over India. Please do not drink soft drinks like Maja, CoCo Cola, 7up, Thumsup, Pepsi, Sprite etc because one of the company’s workers mixed the contaminated blood of the dangerous virus called Ebola in it. (sic)" [...] We checked the official website of Hyderabad police but did not find any press release related to consumption of soft drinks. No notice was issued on any of its social media platforms either. Neither was there any news being broadcast by NDTV about soft drinks laced with Ebola-infected blood. Moreover, there is no credible news report of an employee mixing blood contaminated with Ebola to the drinks.