We searched on Google with the help of the words mentioned in the headline of the alleged BBC article. However, it yielded no results. We then analysed the viral image and found several red flags suggesting that it’s a morphed image. Let’s take a look at them one by one.
1. GRAMMATICAL ERRORS IN THE TEXT
The headline of the article reads: ‘Black fungus: Indian scientist find link with cow urine 9,000 cases of rare infection. (sic)’
This is grammatically incorrect because it should have been ‘Indian scientist finds link’ or ‘Indian scientists find link,’ as the case may be. Further, the headline should have made use of a comma or semi-colon between “urine” and “9,000.”
A similar error can be seen in the first line of the article, where it should have been either “Scientist in India has discovered” or “Scientists in India have discovered,” as the case may be.
2. COMPARISON BETWEEN VIRAL IMAGE AND ARTICLE PUBLISHED BY BBC
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