# Klingerman Virus: New Urban Legend?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/klingerman-virus-new-urban-legend/20203>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [May 22, 2000, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/klingerman-virus-new-urban-legend/20203 "2000-05-22T17:43:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![Inky\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7feea3/32.png) [@Inky\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inky_1)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2000, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/klingerman-virus-new-urban-legend/20203/1 "2000-05-22T17:43:34Z")

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Anybody else get this e-mail about a “Klingerman Virus” which supposedly arrives in your real-life mailbox via a moist sponge in a blue envelope, causing flu-like symptoms and in rare cases death?

I don’t for a second believe it seeing as how it arrives so conviently on the heels of the Love Bug, but I’m wondering if this the first appearance of ths particular Urban Myth?

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**Author:** ![I.M.Kierkegaard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ea5d25/32.png) [@I.M.Kierkegaard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I.M.Kierkegaard)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2000, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/klingerman-virus-new-urban-legend/20203/2 "2000-05-22T17:49:21Z")

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> **[Klingerman Virus](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/klingerman-virus/)**
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> Is someone sending sponges carrying the 'Klingerman virus' through the mail?

Snopes has a page on this one already. No info on whether it’s been making the rounds before or not, though.

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**Author:** ![Inky\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7feea3/32.png) [@Inky\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inky_1)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2000, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/klingerman-virus-new-urban-legend/20203/3 "2000-05-22T18:00:26Z")

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Drat! I can’t even get an ORIGINAL piece of bunk…

Thanks.

Inky

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**Author:** ![Wonko\_The\_Sane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/258eb7/32.png) [@Wonko\_The\_Sane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wonko_The_Sane)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2000, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/klingerman-virus-new-urban-legend/20203/4 "2000-05-23T18:40:04Z")

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A very nice and attractive young woman sends me Urban Legends all the time. I always go to [snopes.com](http://snopes.com) first. They are always in there. I just delete the emails, but that [snopes.com](http://snopes.com) is fun!