Mysterious fumes sicken Shanghai

The Shanghai Daily reports that a pungent smell spread through the city yesterday evening, causing nausea among its inhabitants. Two women were taken to hospital after breathing in the fumes. According to eyewitnesses the fumes smelled something like "pesticide or leeks". The source has not yet been discovered, and the Environmental Protection Bureau is still investigating.

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How did they determine the pungent smell from all the other pungent smells?

Outside of industrial crap and human crap what else could it be? Maybe a new organism in the sewers of Shanghai? Maybe too many "angry youths" in one place?

Eastman, clean your ass!

I've had some gastrointestinal distress lately as the result of some bad jiaozi...I never thought that it would affect this many people though....

Like Donghu Lu on a good day.

This was followed up in the Chinese papers the next day.

A weedkiller plant up the north end of Pudong, up along the river there had an 'accident'. Some people directly over river in Yang Pu and Hong Kou had to be admitted to hospital.

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