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A meteorite crashed down in Peru last weekend leaving hundreds of people sick who ventured near the crater. Witnesses reported seeing “fiery ball falling from the sky” before it landed in the remote area near the Bolivian border. So far, 200 people are reporting symptoms which include nausea and respiratory difficulties. The health department director for the area has attributed the cause of the illnesses to toxic fumes released from the crater which measures 66 feet wide by 16 feet deep.

Other experts are skeptical, and suggest the cause is the dust that was raised by the impact. Geologist Ursala Mervin, who has studied meteorites at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Massachusetts, indicated that if gas were present it would not have come from the meteorite, but instead from the earth; and in too small an amount to have any effect.

Photographs of the crater show a pool of water has accumulated in it, probably from rain, and there is local concern “that toxic fumes from the meteor are polluting water in the area.” So far eight doctors have been dispatched to tend to the sick, but there is no word on the water quality yet. There is word on a future such event that will bring catastrophic results:

And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters; And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter. (Rev 8:10-11)

(story in Daily Mail)

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