Posted on 06/03/2006 12:02:23 PM PDT by neverdem
Sufferers describe ghastly symptoms; but some doctors skeptical of claims
The Bay Area might be home to a small cluster of a horrifying and as-yet-incurable disease that leaves patients with open sores all over their bodies and strange, unidentifiable objects poking out of their skin.
Or not. It's possible that this mystery disease is all in their heads.
The disease is called Morgellons, and no one knows what causes it or if it's even real.
After more than a year of pressure from patients convinced they have Morgellons, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will begin investigating the ailment for the first time and determine, once and for all, whether it exists. The CDC started organizing a committee this week for that purpose.
"Not a day passes when I don't talk to somebody who claims to have this," said CDC spokesman Dan Rutz. "In the absence of any objective review, people have jumped to conclusions and found each other on the Internet and formed their own belief structure. We really need to debunk this if there isn't anything to it or identify if there is indeed a new, unrecognized disease that needs attention."
No one knows how long Morgellons has been around, but about four years ago a South Carolina mom who says her three children have the disease was researching their symptoms and found reference to a 1674 medical study that described a similar condition, called Morgellons.
The disease sounds like a nightmare. In fact, one Web site claims Morgellons was "invented" recently to help promote a summer horror movie. A search on the Internet reveals dozens of people who have posted magnified photos of their symptoms -- usually twisted, thread-like protrusions from the skin and sometimes hazy images that look like small bugs.
It doesn't help convince...
(Excerpt) Read more at seattlepi.nwsource.com ...
Maybe NOT delusion, but illegal aliens bringing us the diseases which Americans will not.
"unidentifiable objects poking out of their skin" This is the San Fransisco area after all. I guess after a while things start poking out if you poke enough in.
Just like Alien Abductions. First ask yourself: does this disease/phenomenon mysteriously seem to afflict only upper-middle-class whiteys?
Place "The Cita" under quarantine and use the military to cordon it off. Request that the WHO provide food, water and material aid. Await further developments.
Webpage
http://www.morgellons.org/
Contact address is in South Carolina, not California.
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What I don't understand is if these people have all these horrible symptoms (things poking out of their skin - YUK!) and they go to a doctor, how is it that the doctor doesn't see these things? Or do they disappear on exposure to fresh air and daylight?
Constitutional questions aside, clearly the CDC is overfunded. What a waste - spending taxpayer monies on such an improbable threat!
Be careful who you say that around. There are plenty of "Americans" who will say that we deserve whatever plagues come from south of the border. Payback for the "white diseases" that killed off the Indians. Doncha just know there are DUmmies waiting with bated breath to begin THOSE charges??
Me thinks the British oughta give back to Morgellons Islands back to Argentina!
Me thinks the British oughta give the Morgellons Islands back to Argentina!
Just another unidentified sclerosis?
Mystery disease hits South Texas
Border Mystery Disease
Frightening Skin Disease Invades L.A.
Frightening Skin Disease Invades L.A. (Morgellons)
The CDC must be recruiting psychiatrists...
I don't think a healthy dose of skepticism makes anyone a lowlife. I'd be very interested to see the CDC's conclusions....specifically, how a mystery disease can cause common everyday fibers to suddenly erupt from the skin.
When I first read about this condition, I was pretty well horrified - but I kept reading that many who suffer from it, feel that it was caused by chemtrails. So it really has little credibility as far as I am concerned.
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