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By Keith Chu / The Bulletin
February 25, 2005
MADRAS - It started with a smell.
John Gerbert had never encountered anything like it. The 44-year-old Army veteran had worked as a fisherman in the Bering Sea and driven big rigs across the Northwest, but this smell made him sick.
He didn't know it yet, but the unusual odor marked the beginning....