Re: Q #4585;
Tanzania's President Blames Fake Positive Tests In The Spike In Coronavirus Cases
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PERALTA: He said he had samples taken from a goat and a sheep and a bird and a papaya and had them labeled with human names. They were sent to Tanzania's National Laboratory.
PERALTA: The papaya and others tested positive, he claimed - proof his labs were falsifying positive test results to sabotage Tanzania. He went on to say that he had ordered an herbal cure being pushed by the president of Madagascar.
Tanzania's President Blames Fake Positive Tests In The Spike In Coronavirus Cases
PERALTA: He said he had samples taken from a goat and a sheep and a bird and a papaya and had them labeled with human names. They were sent to Tanzania's National Laboratory.
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The Reuters story that Stormflag linked at #
170 calls it a pawpaw.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-tanzania/president-queries-tanzania-coronavirus-kits-after-goat-test-idUSKBN22F0KF
Wikipedia says the papaya is native to the Americas and is also called pawpaw.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papaya
The papaya (/pəˈpaɪə/, US: /pəˈpɑːjə/) (from Carib via Spanish), papaw, (/pəˈpɔː/[2]) or pawpaw (/ˈpɔːpɔː/[2])[3] is the plant Carica papaya, one of the 22 accepted species in the genus Carica of the family Caricaceae.[4] Its origin is in the tropics of the Americas, perhaps from Central America and southern Mexico.[5]
Then there's
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asimina:
The common name pawpaw, also spelled paw paw, paw-paw, and papaw, probably derives from the Spanish papaya, perhaps because of the superficial similarity of their fruits.
Clear as mud, right?