Gloria Ramirez smelled. The Californian woman was was dying from cervical cancer, and to make matters worse she had bad body odor – so bad that twenty-three hospital workers reported fainting, shortness of breath, and muscle spasms after exposure. Five workers required hospitalization, and one had to stay in an intensive care unit for two weeks to recover. Ramirez died less than an hour after entering the hospital. And with her death, hospital workers stopped getting sick.
This incident happened in 1994. It has been the inspiration for multiple TV episodes, including X-Files and NCIS. But to this day it is unknown exactly how Ramirez was harming the people around her.
One theory is that she was self-medicating with dimethyl sulfoxide for her pain, which can convert into the toxic gas dimethyl sulfate. Another, less-interesting theory, is that it was mass hysteria.
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