Xeni posted this over on Boing Boing a little while ago:

The culprit was discovered to be mosquitoes native to that region carrying a new strain of Malaria which thus far has a 100 percent mortality rate and kills victims in fewer than 2 days. After death, this parasite is able to restart the heart of its victim for up to two hours after the initial demise of the person where the individual behaves in extremely violent ways from what is believed to be a combination of brain damage and a chemical released into blood during “resurrection.”

How cool is that? Or rather how cool would that be if it weren’t a fake. Here’s the link that accompanied the story:

http://65.127.124.62/south_asia/4483241.stm.htm

It points to a faked BBC News page:

The fake page is based on this story that was originally posted on 2005/04/25 - and indeed it turns out the hoax is quite old: check out this Google search. In fact it dates from, er, April Fools day 2005.

So who’s pranking whom? Xeni thanks Bonnie for the link. What do you know Bonnie?

Oh, one more clue. The faked page has a link to baserape.com. Turn your speakers down if you check it out.

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