In September 1987, two thieves stole a handful of blue powder from the ruins, and no one thought that these beautiful powders, which looked crystal clear, would bring disaster to the whole of Brazil. What is even more frightening is that to this day, this catastrophe continues... Why can some powders bring such disaster to Brazil? Why did these two thieves steal these powders? Welcome to like the comment collection.
Blue powder
The disaster of the blue powder
On September 13, 1987, in the brazilian city of Goiânia, two young men, Robert Alves and Wagner Pereira, were wandering the streets while their eyes were on an abandoned clinic nearby. The two young men are idle on weekdays, always stealing something to sell and make ends meet.
The abandoned clinic had been idle for two years, with only one security guard, and while the security guards were not there, two young men quickly rummaged into the abandoned clinic. But to their disappointment, there was very little value in the clinic, only a machine that looked like some metal to be pulled down and sold for money, so they took the machine home.
Chemotherapy machine
So the two thieves began to disassemble the large machine, and dismantled a lot of metal plates. Just when the two were complacent about this, some problems began to appear in the two people. Among them, Wagner, who began to have headaches, diarrhea, and swelling of his body, went to the hospital to see a doctor, who thought he was allergic and recommended to stay away from transmitting allergens. So Wagner went back to rest, while Robert continued to work, and then the two of them made 19 grams of blue powder from the machine.
The beginning of a nightmare
Humans have always liked shiny things, if you see a blue powder that will glow, what will your first reaction be?
One of the thieves
The 19 grams of blue powder were sold to the scrap shop by two thieves, along with metal plates. The owner of the scrap shop, De Vere Ferreira, is a very interesting person, he runs a scrap shop, he often receives strange things, so he often shows them off.
The surprise received this time was a sparkling blue powder that even glowed at night, which made the boss very curious and invited his friends to watch it together. Everyone was amazed, and one of the friends named Ivo asked the boss for some powder, planning to take it home to play with the children.
little girl
Ivo has a 6-year-old daughter who is very surprised by this shiny powder, and likes to smear it on his body and show off it to his friends. While eating, the little girl accidentally ate the powder into her mouth. At night, the little girl suddenly had abdominal pain, and at first the family thought that she had eaten a bad stomach, but later found that it was getting worse and worse.
The next day, Ivo and his wife also had corresponding symptoms; at the same time, the owner of the scrap shop and the wife of the boss, the worker in charge of transportation, and the two thieves who dismantled the instruments all had similar symptoms. Although I went to the hospital to see it, the hospital did not say that it was a serious illness, but people were panicked and rumors kept circulating for a while.
Blue powder
Deadly powder
What is this blue powder that has caused countless people to fall seriously ill?
As more and more people became seriously ill, the owner of the scrap shop began to think that the blue powder had magic and would bring misfortune to those around him, so he decided to sell the powder to another scrap shop. However, the boss's wife still dragged the sick body, put the blue into the bag, and rushed to the hospital to request testing. Because the boss's wife described the matter very seriously, many experts in the hospital were present, and one of the experts was slightly involved in nuclear radiation, thinking that it might be nuclear radiation, and quickly became alert.
The metallic state of cesium
After these powder tests, the doctors at the hospital were shocked. Because these powders are cesium-137, they are highly radioactive. But why would two thieves be able to steal such a terrible thing if they stole it casually?
It turned out that the large machine stolen by the two thieves was a chemotherapy machine. Chemotherapy, on the other hand, is actually using radioactive substances to kill malignant cells, mainly to treat cancer. But if this radiation reaches normal people, it will bring cancer to normal people. These powders are placed in the metal ring of the chemotherapy machine.
nuclear radiation
The terrible thing is that without everyone's knowledge, these powders are quietly spreading through the air, water, and mud, and are already in an uncontrollable state throughout the city. The Brazilian government attached great importance to this and quickly organized personnel to recover all possible contaminated items and destroy them in a centralized manner. Several people who were seriously ill also died soon after.
The total number of people who were irradiated reached 249, of which 17 were damaged by bone marrow, 4 died, and some people, although not dead, also endured a lifetime of torture. The Brazilian government, on the other hand, lost hundreds of millions; the economy of the city of Goiânia plummeted and was discriminated against by other cities.