Doctors puzzled over bizarre infection surfacing in South Texas

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

[sam_paine]

It could be a third world disease spread by mexicans.

It could be "Delusional Parasitosis" spread by a first-world internet.

The "whiff of hysteria" with all links pointing to "Eye Five News" type sites leads me to credit the latter.

[Texas_Jarhead]

The images @ morgellons.org are interesting and freaky. It says that the fibers are autofluorescence. Weird stuff.

[Bikers4Bush]

Last time I checked it wasn't just mexicans crossing the border.

We also have the joy of receiving the OTM's and all their diseases and parasites as well which I'd guess they carry here from their country of origin.

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

[Responsibility2nd]

Oh! My bad.

[jpsb]

"There is absolutely no evidence this was brought here from Mexico".

In the old days, dieased people were not allowed to entry the USA and sent back to thier country of origin. Now with "open borders" thier is absolutely no telling who is comming here with what diease. Lot's of third world dieases that we beaten in the usa are now becoming problems again. Just another side effect of open borders, more and nastier dieases.

[RicocheT]

Put Dr. House on the case, He will figure it out.

[verity]

You have been on FR long enough not to forgot to include those nefarious contrails. lol

[mlc9852]

Americans travel back and forth between other countries all the time. For all we know, it could come from London. If the disease really exists.

[stopem]

No need to jump to conclusions till all the facts are in however being in a Southern Texas town near the southern border is suspicious at best.

[hocndoc]

It's either a new fungus or bacteria or it's a bunch of psychotics.

I watched the TV news piece on the phenomenon and did not see one lesion with any "fibers."

It's not surprising that delusions manifest in similar ways. We're hardwired for certain responses to certain stimuli.

But, I'm trying to keep an open mind about it. (and to stop scratching)

[Seamoth]

If I had a fibers growing out of my skin & if I was sweating black tar I'd run to the ER. Very curious that there are no doctors in the article observing it up close & personal, they're just commenting on symptoms reported to them, not symptoms they've actually observed.

I'm inclined to believe that the fibers are simply debris that got in a healing cut/sore/whatever. Happens to me all the time.

[righthand man]

bttt

[Dog Gone]

I'm not trying to insult anyone. I am tired of every thread becoming an illegal alien thread when there's no connection.

First of all, we read it's not contagious. The folks mentioned in the story have the last names of Wilson and Bishop. Not likely to be illegal immigrants from Nuevo Laredo.

And tens of thousands of people cross the border every day legally in both directions.

So your observation makes sense how?

[brytlea]

No, it is between 11 to 20 days.

Parents often wonder how long it takes to develop the illness after being exposed to a child with chickenpox. This period known as the "incubation period", ranges between 11 to 20 days, although for most children it develops within 14 days. If a child does not develop chicken pox after this period, then he or she has not been infected this time.

http://www.drpaul.com/illnesses/chickenpox.html

susie

[jpsb]

How did they get past health officials at the borders? According to U.S. Border Patrol officials, over 4,000 illegal aliens make successful bids to cross America’s borders nightly in Arizona alone. Once inside the U.S., they move into the general population where they spread tuberculosis to American citizens. How many infected illegal aliens breached America’s borders in the past five years? According to a report by Dr. Kevin Patterson in the March issue of Mother Jones News, “Patient Predator,” an estimated 16,000 cases of MDR mycobacterium tuberculosis traveled over U.S. borders from Mexico in the past five years. This new ‘multi-drug resistant’ TB, at this point, is incurable. Worldwide, tuberculosis kills two million people annually.

http://www.newswithviews.com/Wooldridge/frosty65.htm

[Seamoth]

You'll be out of luck. The website doesn't have any pictures of the victims other than the boy with a scrape, just extreme close-up pictures of .... threads. Whoop-dee-doo. Then they try and argue that the fibers are not textile derived because... it glows under a blacklight. Haven't these people heard of laundry detergent?

[MEG33]

Mine,too..I feel so sorry for the victims..I have never heard of this disease.

[bwteim]

Yikes. Still scratching....

http://www.morgellons.org/

[P-40]

I am tired of Mexicans being blamed for everything wrong in this country!

True. That doesn't leave room for blaming the Jews. :)

[brytlea]

Yes, but he will insult us all and nearly kill the patient in the process!
susie