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.
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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?