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A viral Facebook post warning that seven women died after sniffing perfume samples has once again reappeared on social media. This claim is not only outdated, having been around since 2001, but also false.
According to Snopes, the hoax claims that Glen Eagles hospital issued an urgent warning regarding women who had died after smelling perfume samples received in the mail. The Facebook post states:
URGENT News from Glen Eagles Hospital URGENT !!!!!
Seven women have died after inhaling a free perfume sample that was mailed to them. The product was poisonous . If you receive free samples in the mail such as lotions, perfumes, diapers etc. throw them away . The government is afraid that this might be another terrorist act . They will not announce it in the news because they do not want to create panic or give the terrorists new ideas.
Send this Fwd: to all your friends and family members.
Diane J. Ford
Multiple variations of the message have appeared but all include essentially the same elements. The fake warning originally appeared through email a month after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. It claimed the government was hiding these deaths from the country so as not to cause panic in the wake of the tragedy. However, during that time, multiple reports regarding terrorist activity and anthrax spores delivered in the mail, which caused five deaths, were being widely circulated in order to keep the public informed. Subsequent warnings about Tide detergent samples containing anthrax beginning in 2010 were also fake.
Versions of the warning that contained different taglines also attempted to make it seem more likely that these deaths were actually occurring. A county attorney’s office in Texas was forced to disavow an email that appeared official after an administrative assistant in the office forwarded it, attaching her signature to it. The Johns Hopkins University also had to refute the claim after their office of communications and public affairs somehow got tangled in with the hoax.
Eventually, the message made its way to the real Gleneagles Hospital and Medical Centre, located in Singapore, and the hospital had to attach a disclaimer to their website. A post on their Facebook page from 2013 reads:
Recently, an email and short message service (SMS) has been circulating amongst members of the public pertaining to a poisonous perfume sample which caused the death of seven women upon inhalation and exposure. It was purportedly sent by a person who claimed to be an employee of Gleneagles Hospital Limited, on behalf of the hospital, in order to warn the public as these seven women were supposedly admitted and treated at Gleneagles Hospital.
We understand the panic and mystification that this email has caused and the public’s need to seek verification and consolation from a reliable medical institution such as ours. Thus, we would like to highlight that we have never admitted or treated such patients and have never been aware of such incidences. We would also like to categorically state that this email did not originate from our Hospital and / or any of our employees, current or otherwise. In addition, we declare that no one was ever at any time commissioned or authorised by the Hospital to deliver and circulate such warnings. Further to this, we would also like to point out that our registered company name is Gleneagles Hospital (Kuala Lumpur) Sdn. Bhd. (Co. No. 198498-T) and we were never at any point known as Gleneagles Hospital Limited as claimed in the email.
In view of the above, we sincerely hope that all members of the public who had read this email and our clarification will inform everyone around them that this is a hoax and urge everyone to ignore and delete such emails in the future. Thank you.
The hoax recently resurfaced, this time often delivered with the premise that either ISIS was behind the attacks or that the media was keeping the deaths a secret. The claims always lacked details and, according to Snopes, no explanation was ever provided to explain why seven women and one hospital were specifically targeted.
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No women have been poisoned or killed from sniffing perfume samples at any time.
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