Sickness from beyond the stars in Peru solved!

[Phlegmak]

It was arsenic fumes from underground.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/09/070921-meteor-peru.html

I would have posted this in the original meteor thread, but I couldn't find it.

 

[Slaughter]

I remember an little rock from space falling here in Brazil. It was the size of a ball . I don't remember what happened, through. Spacerocks falling in the earth are extremely normal.

 

[El_Machinae]

How could it be arsenic?

If you're going to get superpowers from a meteor-strike, I don't think it'll be due to arsenic!