Meteorite causes mystery illness
 

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070918...uhealthoffbeat

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.

Rescue teams and experts were dispatched to the scene, where the meteorite left a 100-foot-wide (30-meter-wide) and 20-foot-deep (six-meter-deep) crater, said local official Marco Limache.

"Boiling water started coming out of the crater and particles of rock and cinders were found nearby. Residents are very concerned," he said.

Theeyy're HHeeeeEEEEEeerreeeeeee!

http://billknell.tripod.com/alien/Image170.jpg

Radiation surely?

I wonder how many people would die if that meteorite hit NYC

the boiling water might must be from natural geothermic springs. maybe it was from water in the earth that boiled from the impact.

the last two sentences in the paste seem unnecessary.

otherwise, interesting news!

I can smell trouble..

And guess which country would be blamed for it

Maybe bush and pals would blame russia for developing meteorite launchers

this is only the beginning ...


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No, they'd they that al quaeda is now throwing rocks, and that scientists clearly identified the rocks to be Iranian rocks

WMD

:2 cents:

http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/8...eorshitdt1.jpg

Remember this movie? :thumbsup

time to move to a better neighborhood

Uh oh. It has started.

interesting

I am not sure that all that illness its cause buy meteor.

hhhmmmm Interesting I'm not sure what to think

Has there been a cure to the mystery illness?

My guess: it was an old Soviet satellite, the nuclear powered kind.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RORSAT

That would mean the mystery illness is radiation poisoning.

:1orglaugh that's exactly what I was thinking when I read the first post.

i second that.

Kinda scary to think that something like this could end up being "the prove of ET life" .....

It sounds like something out of "Resident Evil" or "Night of the Comet"

:helpme:helpme:helpme

This is highly unlikely. Possible though.

Although a majority of the nuclear cores were successfully ejected into high orbits, these orbits still decay. If left untouched, the highly radioactive cores will return to the Earth's atmosphere after several hundred years.

I think its britney spear's career

hat sounds not healthy

Kryptonite