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The ‘Eyeball Licking’ Fad and other Media Scares

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Aug 072013
 

A “weird news” story circulated in June about a trend among Japanese schoolchildren licking each other’s eyeballs and supposedly spreading the highly contagious disease pink eye. But was it too good to be true? Find out HERE.

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