Woman exposed to blood at McDonald’s; is now taking Truvada

I admit that this is more of a human interest story than anything else, but I thought it was interesting. A lady was innocently eating a Big Mac at the “upper Peach Street McDonald's” in Erie, Pennsylvania, when she discovered what she thought was ketchup, so she consumed it. Oops—it turned out to be blood. Check out the story here (emphasis mine throughout):

Blood on Erie-area McDonald's items alarms diner. County Health Department investigating

Elizabeth Kiddo was eating a Big Mac meal at the upper Peach Street McDonald's March 9 when she looked down and noticed a red smear across her palm.

Thinking it was ketchup, the 29-year-old Bemus Point, New York, woman licked the substance off her hand.

[…]

A week later, Kiddo said she is taking two antiviral medications and getting regular blood tests in case she has been exposed to HIV or hepatitis. […] After the incident, Kiddo contacted her primary care physician's office, which recommended she start taking the antiviral drugs Truvada and Isentress to reduce her risk of illness. She also will undergo regular blood testing for at least the next six months.

I have two reactions to this, and my first is that McDonald’s seems to have been plagued by this sort of hygienic mishap over the years—remember the woman that sued McDonald’s in 1994 and won $640,000 because she burned her lap badly on coffee that was too hot? Or the family that was awarded $800,000 for the 2019 chicken nugget lawsuit? Maybe McDonald’s needs to screen their employees more carefully, or, I don’t know, not burn the heck out of their coffee.

Beyond the kind of frivolity of this story—this is really sad, actually. We’ve become so conditioned to being terrified of everything that isn’t plastic and sterile that a person is willing to take Truvada as post-exposure prophylaxis, at great risk to her health, despite the fact that, even per the mainstream, “HIV” has never been transmitted via eating food (although if you’re as old as I am you’ll recall that one of the original totally racist “theories” as to how “HIV” “jumped species” was that Africans were eating raw monkey meat; how the hell is that supposed to have happened?). Anything to sell drugs, I suppose. Look, I was right:

This incident comes less than a month after a food-handling employee at Cracker Barrel, 7810 Interstate Drive, was diagnosed with hepatitis A. Customers who ate food at the Summit Township restaurant between Feb. 10 and Feb. 21 were given hepatitis A vaccines at a county Health Department clinic.

Okay, I’m done. I’m actually a little surprised that McDonald’s isn’t being sued, as far as I know. We’ve seen all we need to see at this point; anything can be spun into a “public health crisis” if there are vaccines or drugs to be sold.

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