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Four TSA workers hospitalized by rodent repellent at Boston airport

BOSTON — Four Transportation Security Administration (TSA) workers were hospitalized Monday when they fell ill after opening a bag at Logan International Airport in Boston.

Airport officials said a suspicious odor started coming from the bag after it was opened and 15 workers complained of feeling ill.

Spokesman Phil Orlandella told the Boston Globe a passenger identified the odor as rodent repellent.

The four TSA employees were sent to Massachusetts General Hospital for evaluation suffering from headaches and eye irritation.

Orlandella told the newspaper, “The room just passed an air quality test, and State Police are going through the bag trying to figure out what happened.”

Part of a baggage hall in the airport’s Terminal A remained closed Monday and there were delays due to the disruption. The airport itself remained open.

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