Mystery illness strikes after meteorite hits

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Mystery illness strikes after meteorite hits Peruvian village

Sep 17 11:23 PM US/Eastern


Is Fetid Mystery Meteorite Crater in Peru Causing Villager Illnesses?

Villagers in southern Peru were struck by a mysterious illness after a meteorite made a fiery crash to Earth in their area, regional authorities said Monday.
Around midday Saturday, villagers were startled by an explosion and a fireball that many were convinced was an airplane crashing near their remote village, located in the high Andes department of Puno in the Desaguadero region, near the border with Bolivia.

Residents complained of headaches and vomiting brought on by a "strange odor," local health department official Jorge Lopez told Peruvian radio RPP.

Seven policemen who went to check on the reports also became ill and had to be given oxygen before being hospitalized, Lopez said.

or maybe if we're lucky...Romero Zombie apocalypse!!!

:woohoo:

called "The Lonesome Death of Jordy Verrill", starring Stephen King himself.

Here it's a "foul odor", "such as sulfur": http://www.knbc.com/news/14141075/detail.html

I passed out in Qual Chem once from a huff of sulfuric acid, thinking "qualitative" meant "subjective", but the health effects are pretty well documented ("Johnny was a chemist's son, but Johnny is no more. For what he thought was H2O was H2SO4." source). Given the extreme amount of activity in the area, and an explosion/fire leaving a foul-smelling 100 foot wide crater from a meteorite nobody saw, all of my instincts as a non-geologist say "volcanic eruption".