No Sickness from Space

The mysterious illness afflicting Peruvians near a meteorite crash site has been identified. They’re all suffering from arsenic poisoning. It seems that when the meteor fell into the side of the mountain near Lake Titicaca, it opened up an underground water source that was naturally tainted with arsenic. And because the meteor was rather hot at the time, it turned a lot of that water into arsenic-laden steam. Inhaling arsenic, even in small amounts, is not good for you. Fortunately, in this case it wasn’t fatal. All thirty people that were sickened by the fumes now report that they feel better.

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[Cambias]

Of course, if they were affected by a mind-controlling space zombie plague, that's just what they _would_ say.