Andromeda strain? Not likely...

When people in Carancas, Peru (near Lake Titicaca) started getting sick after an object fell from the sky, word of an Andromeda Strain-like outbreak spread across the internet.

Although the cause of the illness hasn't yet been determined, the BBC is reporting that the sickness is not likely to have been caused by the meteorite.

Hell, Wired is even reporting that it probably wasn't even a meteorite that crashed in Peru.

While we may not know what it was, something did crash in Peru (see the pictured crater). And people Peruvians who go to the site are getting sick.

I am curious though. If a meteorite could make a crater that size, you'd think they would have found it by now.