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Fact Check: Claim about dual efficiency of at-home pregnancy test kits is false

An image of a pregnancy test kit showing the face of a person is shared virally with the claim that it can reveal the father’s identity along with confirming the pregnancy.

By 23 May 2023 2:06 PM GMT
Fact Check: Claim about dual efficiency of at-home pregnancy test kits is false

An image of a pregnancy test kit showing the face of a person is shared virally with the claim that it can reveal the father’s identity along with confirming the pregnancy. The image shows an unbranded home pregnancy kit with a pregnancy positive result and a picture of the hopeful father.

The claim with the picture says, “New pregnancy test shows a picture of the father”

Fact check:

The claim that the latest pregnancy test reveals the identity of the father is false. The image is a morphed one.

When we performed a reverse image search, we found that the image was shared on websites like Tulsa Health Department. This image does not include the screen showing the image of the father.

It is a stock image on depositphotos.com, uploaded in May 2012. That means it is an old image and does not show the latest technological advances.

According to research, the first home pregnancy test kits were introduced in 1976. Now, these kits use antibodies to detect human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG). hCG is an ideal marker of pregnancy since it rises rapidly and consistently in early pregnancy and can be detected in urine.

However, to identify the father of an unborn child a totally different marker is used. DNA paternity tests are used to establish the biological father of a child. They compare genetic code of the samples taken from the potential father and their child. The samples need to be taken separately from the possible father and the child. This test can be done during the pregnancy and also after the child is born.

At-home DNA paternity test kits have two different ways of testing. One takes a blood sample of both father and child, others use swabs from the inside of the cheeks for buccal cells.

Hence, the image is a morphed one and there is no such home pregnancy test yet that tests both pregnancy as well as paternity. The claim is false.

Claim :   New pregnancy test shows a picture of father
Claimed By :  Social Media Users
Claim Reviewed By :  Telugupost Network
Claim Source :  Social Media
Fact Check :  False
News Summary - Claim about dual efficiency of at-home pregnancy test kits is false
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Satya Priya BN

A motivated professional with a zeal to learn with more than 7 years of experience as a Content and Digital manager in Press, Electronic, and Digital media. Fact checker with more than 4 years of experience in fact checking. Trained by Google News Initiative India Training Network. Fact check trainer, Factshala Trainer, BBC Young Reporter India Trainer and also participated in Trauma literacy training. Worked in Newsmeter.in as a Fact Check Lead from September 2019 to October 2021. Worked as a Freelance Senior Researcher with BBC World Service, Investigations Unit from January 2022 to Aril 2022 and also as Freelance Fact Checker for Newsmeter.in Also Conducting workshops on Fact Checking for various communities including Media students etc. Conducted fact checking workshops for school students as part of pilot project – BBC Young Reporter India in the past few months. Participated in Workshop on Countering Disinformation for Telugu Television Reporters conducted by US Consulate General and Osmania University in 2022 as Trainer. Trained the journalists on several topics of Fact checking such as Types of misinformation, Tools and Techniques of photo and video verification, Geolocation, writing fact checks, Health fact checking etc. Co-authored the first Fact check manual- “How to write Fact-checks” in Telugu language as part of the workshop. Presently working as Fact check lead in Telugupost.com.
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