Originally posted by the Bear:
[b]HOAXED!

read up various sources like..
Trend Micro, Nuketown,
About.com,
Snopes...
and the grandaddy of them all, the bloody CDC, the Control
for Infectious Diseases themselves
[/b]
the interesting thing about these kind hoax is..
Although there is no solid scientific study to disprove
this claim, the email uses fraud by improperly citing the
Center for Disease Control to back its claims.