So my memory wasn’t that far from the reality. But I’ve been juggling a lot of laborious tasks recently, so I can be forgiven for lapses on this occasion. 
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“This was sewage water seeping through a wall due to faulty plumbing,” he said. “It posed a health risk to people who were fooled into believing it was a miracle.”
Why investigate a possible health threat? When they could jut put the person in jail for ruining the fun of a miracle.
Yes, this is a health hazard . . . like religious people who touch (and otherwise interract) with the dead bodies of people who are “uncorrupted” and destined to be saints.
Please see below:
As a nurse and a former paramedic, I must take the position that it is a substantial health risk for people to handle long-dead bodies (even if there is little evidence of decay) without protective equipment and/or proper training . . . and this especially includes children.
In Florida, hurricanes sometimes cause graves in cemeteries to unearth large amounts of dead people, and such scenes are treated as a HAZMAT (hazardous materials) incident.
Aneorobic bacteria can create horrible organic toxins (botulism is an example, and there are many more) in a dead body within the airtight confines of a coffin, some components of embalming fluid can become concentrated and quite toxic over time, and certain types of dangerous bacteria can multiply and become virulent when these corpses are exposed to the outside air.
Things like this are an example of how religion kills people . . . not just when Jehovah’s Witnesses refuse blood transfusions for their sick kids.
Indeed, my first thought upon being reminded that the “tears” were in fact untreated sewage water, was “How many of the people who licked this died of cholera?”
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Or from dysentary, or from salmonella, or from typhoid, or from hepatitis A . . . and so on.
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