Well maybe if one of these meteorites hit a nuclear waste storage facility (or any other superfund cleanup site, or a good deal of the area in China) we'll see people ACTUALLY getting sick. Then this author will feel silly.

Quoted: On what started as a normal Saturday night one week ago, residents of a small, remote Peruvian town saw a bright light streak across the sky, heard a resounding bang and suddenly found themselves at the center of a media frenzy.