Doctors puzzled over bizarre infection surfacing in South Texas

KENS 5 Eyewitness News ^ | 05/12/2006 | Deborah Knapp

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Yet we read that it's not contagious, so let's not turn this into yet another hijacked thread about illegal immigration.

We also read that they don't know what causes it, yet you are certain it's not contagious.

I bet you think cervical cancer isn't contagious either. Ever hear of human papilloma virus?

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Well, what isn't caused by chemtrails?

Good government?

[Sir Gawain]

Medications have been known to trigger dp as well.

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Since Morgellons is not an accepted medical condition, the presentation of symptoms that the patient thinks are Morgellons will generally lead to a diagnosis of delusional parasitosis.

Nothing to see here, move along...™

[kenth]

There are some who seem to think that if they don't know something, it must not exist; the God complex I suppose. Heck, there are just some bad doctors out there. I came down with Bell's Palsy a few years ago. Not ever been familiar with it, it scared the heck out of me and off to the emergency room I went thinking I was having a stroke. My face was obviously paralyzed; I couldn't move a muscle on the left side of my face. The ER doc diagnosed it as sinusitis, interrupting and dismissing my complaints that I had never heard of sinusitis paralyzing one's head.

[Waverunner]

Read the scifi series of books,
The war against the chtorr by david gerrold.
Earth is attacked not by flying suacers or spaceships, but by bioweapons who overwhelm and replace terrestial ecology.
Definitely a bad day for greenpeace and the sierra club.
( as if they have a good day)
Beware the worms.and bunnies.

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I have just as much right to express my opinion as you do! They don't know the cause and they don't know the cure for this.

I'm sorry. You are not permitted to speculate on FR threads.

Didn't you get the memo?

[Darnright]

>Where did you get your logic lessons? <

From here:

http://www.morgellons.org/img/Adv-16.jpg

"The two main occupational groups reporting symptoms of Morgellon's disease are nurses and teachers. Nurses outnumber teachers 3 to 1, but both occupational groups represent a significant percentage of patients with this disease."

[jamaly]

Creepy bump!

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The fact that they cross using mexico doesn't mean the infections originate in mexico.

Good point. Maybe it comes from someplace where it is usually spread by sand fleas...

[P-40]

Looks like yarn to me.

Or a nanobot construction fleet screwed up the wiring job they were doing.

[Brilliant]

There are quite a lot of illegal immigrants in CA and FL, though, too. Makes me all the more suspicious.

[absolootezer0]

Perhaps it's a tick spread parasite? I find it difficult to believe that if they can collect the fibers, they cannot tell what they are. Weird. susie

that's why i try to capture any insects or arachnids that either bite me, or are realy wierd looking and turn up around my house. if something odd happens with the bite, i want to make sure i can show doctors what bit me.

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If I had a fibers growing out of my skin & if I was sweating black tar I'd run to the ER.

Too bad the ER is packed solid with people using it as their primary care physician...

[Flightdeck]

" I came down with Bell's Palsy a few years ago. Not ever been familiar with it, it scared the heck out of me and off to the emergency room I went thinking I was having a stroke. My face was obviously paralyzed; I couldn't move a muscle on the left side of my face."

Exact same thing happened to me in college. I thought I had a brain tumor or something. My doc at least diagnosed it correctly, though. My roommates got a kick out of watching me take a sip of something and half of it fall out of my mouth. In fact, they tried to make me laugh, just so half of my face would look weird.

[Bikers4Bush]

Entirely possible. I know mexico is a third world hellhole but mexicans have been invading us for years and we haven't seen the upswing in infectious diseases that we've seen recently.

My money is on all the OTM's that are caught and released.

And my biggest fear is just what you inferred. The possibility that this is originating in the middle east. Who's to say they aren't experimenting with bio weapons and sending infected persons across the border?

[Carpe Cerevisi]

Perhaps it's related to Fibromyalgia.

[MarMema]

Too bad the ER is packed solid with people using it as their primary care physician...

Applause. Applause.

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Oh great. I'm in a red spot.

[johnny7]

Pestilence...