[penelopesire]

Can not find any info on it yet online. Still looking. Wonder if it was a fake story passed to Fox somehow?

Anyone else hear the report just now?

What causes people’s skin to turn blue?

[Argus]

It’s hypoxia. Oxygen starvation. Can be a number of causes, carbon monoxide or sodium nitrite poisoning among them. Cf “Eleven Blue Men” by Berton Roueche.

[tsmith130]

In a hospital that could be any number of things.

[spacejunkie01]

Home made meth?

[WorkingClassFilth]

I’m no medico, but doesn’t cyanotic poisoning do the same? I think it inhibits oxygen uptake. Probably lots of other stuff does the same thing, but I believe in caution . . .

[Radix]

"What causes people’s skin to turn blue?"

Hypoxia.

[spectre]

I found this possibility:

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Common Name: 1-Napthylamine
CAS Number: 134-32-7
DOT Number: UN 2077
Date: January, 1988
------------------------------------------ HAZARD SUMMARY
* 1-Napthylamine can affect you when breathed in and by passing through your skin.
* 1-Napthylamine should be handled as a CARCINOGEN WITH EXTREME CAUTION.
* High exposure can cause the skin, and lips to turn blue. This reduces the ability of the blood cells to carry oxygen to body organs (Methemoglobinemia).
* Some related chemicals can damage the liver and/or cause skin allergies. It is not known whether 1-Napthylamine has these effects.

IDENTIFICATION
1-Napthylamine is a white or yellow crystalline (sugar or sand like) material which turns purplish red upon exposure to air. It is used in dye and rubber manufacturing and to control weeds.

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[Fishtalk]

What causes people’s skin to turn blue?

Just saw a show on this...SILVER!

[autumnraine]

“What causes people’s skin to turn blue?”

Smurfitus?

Ok, I really hope this is a fake disease because that would not be funny at all if it is true.