Gloria Ramirez

Who was Gloria Ramirez?

Gloria Ramirez was a Riverside, California, woman dubbed "the toxic lady" by the media when several Riverside General Hospital workers became ill after exposure to her body and blood. Her case was the basis for a scene in one episode of the American TV series The X-Files, an episode of the American TV drama Grey's Anatomy, a segment of a show on Discovery Communications' channel Investigation Discovery called "The New Detectives, a third season episode of Weird or What?, and the "Stink Bomb" segment of the animated film Memories. Gloria had two children and was a housewife. She was of Mexican descent and volunteered at an elementary school.