Mysterious fog that ‘smells like chemicals’ is making Americans sick
Share:
To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video. Up Next. A heavy fog that ‘smells like chemicals’ has cloaked parts of the US, and people believe it’s making them sick.
![[Science | 14239417 Mystery as thick fog sweeps the US with people reporting chemical-like smells and particles in the air]](https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/SEI_234628000-1159-e1736268012494.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=576)
‘It smells like after you set off a bunch of fireworks’, David Bamber said in a TikTok video of himself walking through thick fog in St Petersburg, Florida. ‘The taste of the air, the only word I can think of is toxic. It’s super weird and it’s kind of worrying me a little bit.
![[Apps With More Than One Million Users]](https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/GettyImages-1632181964-e1700130460337.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=594)
‘I’m 41, I’ve been through fog and this is something different… It smells like chemicals going down my throat when I breathe.’. Others, like TikTok user ‘Rusky’ reported developing a sore throat, cough, tiredness and lethargy, which he says were a direct result of the fog.
![[Americans say mysterious fog with 'chemical smell' is making them sick just minutes after exposure]](https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/SEI_235181692-20b0-e1736268091324.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=563)
Another Florida resident told the Daily Mail she fell ill after a 10-minute gas station stop. She said: ‘Within about and hour, I kept sneezing over and over for about three hours, and my eyes were really puffy. ‘I got very warm and I felt like I had a fever, and my stomach was cramping.’.
Fellow Floridian Holly Meyer Lucas said on TikTok: ‘I’ve been sick and my eyes have been an absolute painful disaster for like two weeks now. ‘We’ve had the fog in Florida, which is absolutely not normal.’. So what could this ‘sickness-fog’ be? Well, it might just be fog, coupled with the viruses doing the rounds this winter.
