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To: bagster; StormFlag
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?
226 posted on 07/17/2020 2:52:47 PM PDT by HoneysuckleTN (WWG1WGA! Q / Q+ || President Trump 2020 KAG! :) MAGA!)
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Paw Paw or Papaya, it tested positive for covid-19


264 posted on 07/17/2020 3:45:02 PM PDT by KittenClaws ("There is no 1502 Johnson" ~ Joan Hamilton)
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