Eat grapefruit to infect bp5 virus?

Screenshot of rumors in the circle of friends

There is another variant

Only the virus name was changed to "SBitch5" virus

Everyone thinks this information

Does it seem familiar

Let's uncover its true face

See the truth ahead of time:

The prototype of this rumor is the SB250 virus rumor that circulated in the previous two years

On January 10, Weibo user @capital network police released a message saying that after verification by the Shunyi District Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital, there is no related epidemic situation, and this information is a rumor

Screenshot of Weibo by the Capital Network Police to refute rumors

Subsequently, the Shunyi District Government of Beijing and the official Weibo of the District Health and Family Planning Commission both forwarded the rumor-refuting information

On January 11, the Jiefang Daily • Shangguan News reporter verified that the prototype of the rumor was the SB250 virus rumor circulated in the past two years, and combed its "evolutionary history", and found a total of 6 variant versions

Version 1.

Version 2.

Version 3.

Version 4.

Version 5.

Version 6.

Different versions of the same rumor have been derived from the "seventy-two changes", and they will always come out to "scare people" at the "appropriate" time

Public opinion analysis

We are not unfamiliar with the rumor of "eating grapefruit to infect bp5 virus", "eating ** infecting ** virus" is like an "Internet celebrity" formula, which can be applied at will, changing different seasonal foods, infecting different funny viruses, disguising into different rumors

In fact, analyzing the rumors found that its content exposed a lot of doubts

How can we identify and prevent rumors that have repeatedly changed and escalated? First, strengthen the popularization of relevant information, improve the public’s scientific literacy and cognitive ability, and form a better defense against rumors; second, increase The crackdown on rumors will deter those rumor-makers and communicators with ulterior motives, and purify the cyberspace; finally, before forwarding information, the public must first screen the information, whether it is an old post, whether it is a trusted source and source, and avoid “ Fell in the same place