False claim that 'paracetamol tablets contain the deadly Mac

Multiple Facebook posts in Thailand have shared a claim that some tablets of the painkiller paracetamol contain the Machupo virus -- which can cause a potentially life-threatening haemorrhagic fever. However, the claim is false; health experts dismissed it as "untrue" and explained that the virus could not survive in the tablet. The product in question, called P-500, is also

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