Is Morgellons Disease Caused By Chemtrail Spraying?

By Ted Twietmeyer
tedtw@frontiernet.net
5-14-6

OBSTACLES TO CURING THE DISEASE

The outbreak in south Texas which made big news recently has thus far provided no answers as to the source of the disease. There is a wall which exists in the science community, which is as difficult as climbing Mt. Everest for scientists thinking "outside the box." Scientists are inherently bound by peer review and the very culture that awards them their doctorates, to stay away from so-called "fringe sciences." This very mindset makes solving the source of this disease nearly impossible.

There is also the ever present pharmaceutical market problem. Big pharma will ignore any "treatment market" that isn't worth hundreds of millions to billions of dollars. And of course, the word "cure" when uttered by a doctor is akin to blaspheming God. It is never uttered or even thought about, even behind closed doors. Instead, the word "treatment" is always used.

DISEASE IMAGES FROM AN ELECTRON MICROSCOPE



1,200x magnification of fiber growing from skin [1]



700x magnification of a fiber growing back into the skin [1]

CHEMTRAILS AS A POSSIBLE SOURCE?

Since the only treatment that has been known to work is a very long term antibiotic therapy, this strongly suggests something foreign is present in the body. But what is it? Antibiotics are a catch-all therapy for many illnesses that defy explanation. These drugs have been used to treat early micoplasma infections, even though a micoplasma is considered as neither a bacteria or virus. All drugs can change the levels of the body's internal complex chemistry.

With Morgellons disease, there are two important aspects that must be considered. First we must crawl before we can walk. The first problem is HOW people contract it and second, what the pathogen is. Discovering the infection vector will shed tremendous light on the actual pathogen.The second aspect is effective treatment.

We must depart from conventional science to look at the cause of the disease. An open mind is required to consider what the disease vector may be. To start, a full comprehensive compliation of the background of each victim is required to build a database for study. Names are not required - only data. This includes geographic location, exposure to anything abnormal, such as abductions, chemical spills and being in the area of chemtrail fallout zones. According to current researchers [1] all 50 states have shown this disease, although it appears to be more prevalent in three southern states.

There is a strong similarity of Morgellons disease fibers to those found in man-made chemtrails as shown below:



Contrail Fibers under 60x magnification from [2]



Morgellons fibers under 60x magnification [1]

In the above images, we can see that many of the fiber sizes are the same, since both samples are under the same magnification.

Of course, we can't state conclusively these fibers are one and the same without a chemical analysis. Common characteristics of both types of fibers appear to be similar size and chaotic, uncontrolled growth. If these fibers are the result of highly advanced nanotechnology then we have found the disease, and possible who is behind it. But what would be the purpose of forcing this ailment on the population? Torture? To create a new pandemic in order to sell a new drug for a "treatment?" According to the Texas television news report, one young man who recently contracted the painful disease has committed suicide as a result of trying to deal with the pain.

Black nodules, long and short fibers that can't be pulled out and great pain are all highly effective in destroying relationships between couples. Put another way, the suffering is so great that participating in sexual acts are the last thing that victims of the disease will think about doing. The symptoms clearly make population control one important side-effect that cannot be denied. Perhaps south Texas has been selected as an experimental hot-spot. However, the disease has also been found in every state.

It is my hope that a researcher will consider this short essay as a starting point to consider looking for a CURE, and not a useless token treatment. We hope that this still unknown researcher will consider EVERY POSSIBLE VECTOR for this disease, including (but not limited to) nightime abduction experiments.

Ted Twietmeyer

www.data4science.net

REFERENCES

[1] - http://www.morgellons.org/images.html

[2] - http://www.carnicom.com/FibersNov2005.htm

Border mystery disease: Is huge scare even real?

Symptoms include persistent lesions, fibers popping out of skin, brain fog

Posted: May 18, 2006
1:00 a.m. Eastern
By Ron Strom
© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=50254


A nonprofit foundation is working to drum up awareness of a border-area mystery disease that's been described as something out of a horror film, but which most mainstream doctors refuse to admit exists.

The Morgellons Research Foundation hopes to inform lawmakers and public-health officials of the disease to try to work toward an eventual cure.

As WorldNetDaily reported, Morgellons disease, a mysterious infection seemingly similar to one documented 300 years ago, is spreading throughout South Texas. While the disease has not been known to kill and doesn't appear to be contagious, it's the horrible symptoms that have some working feverishly to find an effective treatment.

The South Texas outbreak's proximity to the U.S.-Mexico border comes at a time when the issues of illegal immigration, border security and possible amnesty for over 12 million illegal aliens are being debated in the U.S.

According to the foundation's website, symptoms include skin lesions that do not heal, a crawling sensation on the surface of the skin, fatigue, cognitive difficulties and, perhaps the most disturbing, fibers popping out of the skin.

States the site: "[The fibers] are generally described by patients as white, but clinicians also report seeing blue, green, red, and black fibers, that fluoresce when viewed under ultraviolet light (Wood's lamp)."

Travis Wilson, a Morgellons sufferer for over a year, once called his mother in to see a fiber coming out of a lesion in his chest.

"It looked like a piece of spaghetti was sticking out about a quarter to an eighth of an inch long and it was sticking out of his chest," Lisa Wilson told the San Antonio Express-News. "I tried to pull it as hard as I could out and I could not pull it out.

"He'd have attacks and fibers would come out of his hands and fingers, white, black and sometimes red. Very, very painful," said Wilson.

A variety of other symptoms range from neurological and gastrointestinal problems to changes in skin pigment. Some people have also reported black, tarry beads of sweat.

While it's impossible to know how many Americans – who appear to be concentrated in California, Texas and Florida – suffer with the disease, the foundation says thousands with one or more symptom have registered with it.

Even so, most of the medical community don't see the disease as real, with some doctors telling patients it's all in their head.

"They (doctors) told me I was just doing this to myself, that I was nuts. So basically I stopped going to doctors because I was afraid they were going to lock me up," said sufferer Stephanie Bailey.

A big question medical professionals are wrestling with is how victims come down with the disease.

"It is difficult to say whether Morgellons is contagious," states the FAQ page on the foundation's site. "Many of our group have family members who exhibit no symptoms whatever. On the other hand, many entire families have reported becoming infected at or near the same time. At this juncture, it remains unclear if these households with multiple infected members reflect contagion, due to human-to-human transmission, or some type of mutual exposure."

The name for the disease comes from a condition involving "black hairs" emerging from the skin of children, which was documented in France in the 1600s. While experts say it is doubtful the modern-day disease is linked to the 17th century occurrences, the name was chosen, says the Morgellons Foundation, to provide "a consistent label when addressing politicians, physicians and health departments."

Mary Leitao is executive director of the Morgellons Foundation. She became involved several years ago when her 2-year-old son began exhibiting symptoms.

"The goal of the foundation is to find a cure for Morgellons disease," Leitao told WND. "The other goal is to determine the cause."

Leitao explained that Randy Wymore, Ph.D., of Oklahoma State University is working on getting research work started at the school.

"His goal is to see patients and to investigate it medically and scientifically," Leitao said.

One obstacle, she explained, is that there is not a diagnostic test for Morgellons disease. Even so, Leitao stressed that the skin lesions with fibers appears to be a symptom that links nearly all victims.

"If a physician is able to view these skin lesions under magnification, they may see these fibers," Leitao said.

Since the disease is hard to pin down, treatments vary widely.

Said Leitao: "Some physicians are treating it with pretty high-dose antibiotics. Others are using other meds, including pain medications. It can be a very uncomfortable disease for people."

Leitao said officials at the Centers for Disease Control are "not sure there's a situation going on here" so are reticent to take action.

"I don't think the CDC has heard from enough physicians, because many physicians don't recognize the illness," she said. "They just think the illness is psychosomatic."

Leitao stressed she is committed to finding a cure because of the devastation she has seen in the lives of victims. Many no longer work because of the brain fog that often accompanies the disorder.

"They can't mentally focus on tasks," she said. "They're extremely fatigued and severely depressed – in addition to the skin symptoms."

Indeed, Travis Wilson committed suicide three weeks ago.

"I knew he was going to kill himself, and there was nothing I could do to stop him," his mother said.

Dr. Adelaide Hebert of the University of Texas Health Science Center Houston is unconvinced Morgellons is an actual medical disorder.

"I think if we look at what is truly evidence-based medicine, what has been proven based on scientific fact we know we don't have a means to substantiate [Morgellons]," Hebert told KVUE-TV.

Hebert believes Morgellons exists only in the patient's mind.

"Many of these patients do have delusion of parasitosis," Hebert is quoted as saying. "It is actually not uncommon to have patients come in and describe the sensation that something is crawling on their skin."

Ginger Savely is a nurse practitioner in Austin, Texas, who has documented over 100 incidents of Morgellons.

"[Sufferers] can't get anybody to help them in the medical profession. It's just a nightmare, a living nightmare. I can't imagine any worse disease," she told the TV station.

Some doctors who do recognize the disorder as a medical disease sit on the Medical Advisory Board of the Morgellons Research Foundation.

Says Gregory V. Smith, M.D., a member of the board: "This disorder is much more common than anyone suspects. … During the course of my practice activity, I have seen numerous children … a minimum of three children daily in my office with suspicious skin lesions."

Adds another board member, William T. Harvey, M.D.: "The Morgellon's phenomenon is real. It is also clearly devastating, life-shortening and infectious. I have observed the herald lesions microscopically with their central fibers in dozens of patients."

Leitao remains hopeful for a cure – not only for her own son but countless others.

"It's a bizarre disease; I will admit to that," Leitao said. "But it's a real disease and the people need real help."

Morgellons - What We Do And Don't Know About The 'Fiber' Disease

By Cliff Mickelson
cmicke1065@aol.com
5-19-6


To the question, "What is Known of Morgellons" the only possible answer is: "Not Much"
Excerpt from section V...The Callus

***

It should be clearly stated that among the few certainties extant about Morgellons that are absolutely provable is that there exists a nematode-like life form who's role is central to the affliction.

This fact can be irrefutably summoned into any court of evidence. The worm is a changeling. It is but one of several incarnations documented as complicit actors in a tragi-drama intent on opening to ever-wider numbers of audiences around the world.

As each successful actor has his own unique foil, so too does this peculiar creature have a proprietary shield.

This shield is what we know as the "callus."

Masked behind the security of an artificially manufactured "callus" the Morgellon's nematomorphic worm is master of the host's corporal stage. Hence it remains free to summon forth all the allied sounds of its diseased fury. And ... at curtain fall, it will leave in its wake only the grist of ruined lives and shattered dreams as evidentiary grounds for judgment by its unhappy audience of unwilling reviewers.

It is the organism's creation and composition of the callus and the nematomorph method of utilizing and dermo-forming the callus that begs understanding. To do so is to take the first step on the path that hold a promise of gaining the offensive and of an eventual cure.

My recent research indicates that the callus is more a product of the creature than a reaction of the host. This is more important of a distinction that it may at first appear. The callus, although it mimics skin to a phenomenal degree is, (IMO) NOT skin, or is at best a mixture of plasma and other body fluids chemically transformed by a specialized secretion of the nematomorph.

We know that the finished product is anchored with a tenacity that defies normal convention.

The callus usually makes its debut as a thick clear semi-sticky fluid extruded directly from the endodermis regions. Its consistency is comparable to a clear corn syrup. It has a drying time measured in minutes and at times in seconds. As a result, it is not uncommon for it to escape initial notice.

(This liquid also has other proto-funtions more apropos to other chapters)

The above described secretion is the cement from which the organism builds its callused fortress. It serves the creature well in both a defensive and offensive capacity. As the callus forms and hardens the adult nematomorph often integrates itself into it.

The secretion is also utilized to wash away the caustic effect of chemical attack and to reestablish its dominion within a perimeter where it may have suffered reverses due to enzyme attack or even cases of zealous tweezer tenacity.

More significantly, upwellings of this liquid are also found in previously uninfected areas of the host's body immediately prior to new or expanding colonization.

When left to pursue its natural course, the callus often exhibits a number of "flaps" or skinlike flakes extruding from its edge. When this leading or extruding flap is successfully grasped by tweezers and removed without the aid of being softened by enzyme action or 91% alcohol saturation, It tends to take its leave from the host body in the form of strips that are skin-like in appearance and are generally longer than they are wide.

As the strip is removed it will often appear to rip through the adjoining and/or connected callused areas much like a string through a bag of dog food.

Pain however, is usually minimal along the horizontal length being removed. It is only sharp at the point where the far end section of the nematomorph may be accessing the blood of the host.

The removed section of callus exhibits one interesting characteristic well worth noting. It, as well as any other removable sections in the immediate vicinity, will always only be completely removable in the same direction!

Once that direction is determined, the targeted strips of callus must always be peeled backwards against themselves. They cannot be entirely removed in any other manner or direction and will only break off if contrary removal is attempted.

As stated previously, this may be due to the fact that at there are nematomorphic forms that have physically embedded themselves within the matrix of the callus liquid prior to complete hardening. This tends to form lines of fracture that appear as strips whose borders are defined by a mutual point where other embedded objects are encountered or meshed with.

One additional result of this embedding is that each "strip" of callus has great tensile strength in a horizontal or linear direction. The strength is directly proportional to its length. It is more evident for older and longer embedded creatures and less for younger and therefore shorter ones.

The entire callus is further secured on the underside, (or skin side) not only by the super glue effect of the secretions of the creature, but also by dozens of protuberances that are somehow created as the callus forms and that appear to serve in the capacity of anchors. These "podia"give the undercarriage of the callus an appearance similar to that of the exoskeleton of a millipede or similar creature

(Note)

It is the "peeled back against itself" motion of callus removal that best enables the curved scimitar shaped podia to release their formidable hold on the flesh of the host.

Discerning observers will also note that there are often numbers of small nematomorph forms to be found among these podia.

To sum up: It is my contention to date that the callus is composed not only of the extruded secretion alone, but also that the adult worm is fond of encasing itself in this matrix.

Once embedded, it will remain fixed along its entire length with only a small flap of material protruding from just under the top leading edge of the callus. From these many points along the perimeter, the callus will often grow. These are the allegorical gates of the city. It is from here that one of the methods of creeping expansion are accomplished by the aid of further secretion by the creature as it grows and moves outwards in a horizontal and semicircular manner.

SECTION 5 ACTIVITY WITHIN THE CALLUS

New or juvenile forms found entering the above described callus life stage can be removed embedded in commensurately tiny strips of callus. Interestingly, and to the best of my knowledge, there appears to be no predetermined limit to the length that they may eventually attain.

I have removed such strips that have exceeded an inch or more and many new or small ones of less than a 1/32 of an inch. These strips tend to be very flat and almost "dry" at the leading edge, but much more moist at the end farthest from the leading edge of the callus.

A great majority of these objects that are not completely integrated together in a common secretion with others of their kind will exhibit two horn-like projections on the outer or forward leading edge. These "horns" give the removed object a look resembling a flatworm or fluke with the antennae of a slug or snail. (hence the original designation of "fluke form)

It is these extrusions or prior mentioned flaps that can be grasped by tweezers if one is quick enough. They will often slightly extend beyond the edge of the advancing, (growing) callus or lesion and will noticeably extend themselves even further when stimulated by outside pressure slightly behind their location.

The pressure required to achieve this end is that which occurs when the callus is repeatedly and lightly stroked or rubbed with any foreign object.

Should one attempt to seize this flap but then miss in the attempt, the extrusion will likely retract or curl back under the callus with impressive speed.

The far end of this form, when successfully removed, is anchored in the flesh of the host. It is at this point that the creature is accessing the blood stream. Following successful removal, it is at this point that the host will often bleed profusely. However, such a flow often suddenly stops as suddenly as it begins.

I suspect that this may be due to the fact that the blood is substantially thinned and "pooled" in this location and is serving as a reservoir for feeding reasons and/or larval nursery purposes.

The exiting blood can usually be seen to contain a number of amorphous fleshy objects that will manifest themselves in the flow. These are larvae. If this blood contaminates surrounding uninfected areas the infection is vectored and a new callus will begin to form within an exceptionally short period of time.

In advanced infections these calluses are highly overlaid in a scalelike manner, overlapping one upon the other in great number.

This trait greatly complicates eradication.

Individually the parasites and their shields can be seen as tiny white spots against the skin.

It is often necessary to rub or otherwise irritate the skin in order to highlight parasites at this level of development.

Collectively as the creatures mature, (grow) they merge to form large callused areas. This is due to the fact that when left undisturbed these individual parasites tend to grow in a slightly radial and forward manner. They soon connect with adjoining formations and eventually the mass assumes the appearance of a noticeable callus or they simply appear to the observer as would thickened, aged skin. The latter appearance is an indicator of young callus or (Newly colonized) regions.

No known limit has yet been established as to the attainable proportions of the size of a colony of embedded nematomorphic forms. In fact, there appears to be no arbitrary natural check to just how much or how wide an area of the host's skin surface this sheath of creatures can extend its colonizing activity.

The only difference between a callus and a lesion can be considered one of seniority with the lesion having precedence. A further definition would be that the callus is an enclosed wounding of the host while the lesion is an open wound that, due to suspected but yet to be identified abilities of the parasite, heals poorly, if at all.

- CliffMickelson

Morgellons: Controversial disease doctors refuse to treat

By Janice Williamson / KHOU-TV
KVUE.com
May 12, 2006
http://www.watchermagazine.com/wp-mobile.php?p=4898&more=1


Imagine being so sick you’re unable to work, but can’t find a doctor who will help you.

Mainstream medical professionals don't believe Morgellons is real.

KHOU discovered that is exactly what is happening to a growing number of people in Texas, Florida and California.

Morgellons disease is an illness first documented more than 300 years ago, yet it is still considered a mystery.

Cheryall Spiller moves slower than she once did around her Rosharon farm. The 59-year-old suffers from what she believes is a mystery disease.

“Small white worms that come out of my ears, you can feel them itching in there. You can get a Q-tip and dig them out,” she explained.

Spiller is not alone.

“The sores come up and these fuzzy things come out,” said Stephanie Bailey, Austin resident. “It’s almost like spores or something like that.”

Lesions and scars cover Stephanie Bailey’s arms and legs.

Travis Wilson is a victim too.

“Feeling like bugs are crawling all over you. You can’t sleep. It’s freaky. So he’d go days without sleep,” said Lisa Wilson, patient’s mother.

According to nurse practitioner Ginger Savely, all three may have an emerging sickness called Morgellons disease.

“it just looks you know like somebody picked at something and it got a little infected,” Savely said.

When magnified 60 times the sores take on a different look.

“So you focus a little more you can see the black fibers the white fibers,” Savely said.
Savely admitted the idea of creatures living inside our bodies seems more like science fiction than science.

“I don’t think a person can believe it until they see it with their own eyes,” she said. “The problem is people aren’t looking hard enough, most practitioners are not looking because they are not taking them seriously.”

Mainstream medical professionals don’t believe Morgellons is real.

“I think if we look at what is truly evidence-based medicine, what has been proven based on scientific fact we know we don’t have a means to substantiate her observations,” said Dr. Adelaide Hebert, U.T. Health Science Center Houston.

Dr. Adelaide Hebert said Morgellons exists only in the patient’s mind.

“Many of these patients do have delusion of parasitosis,” Dr. Hebert said. “It is actually not uncommon to have patients come in and describe the sensation that something is crawling on their skin.”

11 News could not locate any Houston doctor who believes in or treats Morgellons. At Oklahoma State University research is underway on a volunteer basis.

Ginger Savely has documented 100 cases and treats her patients with oral and topical antibiotics.

“They can’t get anybody to help them in the medical profession. It’s just a nightmare, a living nightmare. I can’t imagine any worse disease,” she said.

Lisa Wilson’s son became so distraught about his condition he took his own life two weeks ago.

“He would tell me he’d rather have cancer because then he’d know what he was up against,” Lisa Wilson said.

“They’re worried about the bird flu coming, you’ve got something here right now that’s spreadable and it’s being hush-hushed,” Spiller said.

“They told me I was doing it to myself and that I was nuts,” Bailey explained. “I stopped going to doctors because I was afraid they were going to lock me up.”

The scars are more than skin deep.


Fibers embedded in skin removed from facial lesion of three year old boy, 60x. (Image from www.morgellons.org

Parasites - A Sufferer's Diary

Medical Write up for Mr. X - His story of treating skin parasite(s)

http://www.safe2use.com/pests/scabies/gettingridof/030.htm


Strongylus monospinigerum - (temporary name given for this in China)

General description:

An unidentified organism, which is infesting more and more homes across the country. This particular creature apparently houses itself in lint-like fibers which it seems to weave into a tiny ball, like a nest or cocoon, and contacting human skin via floors or clothing, bores into human tissue to take up residence in the body. (Regular laundering with hot water and detergent apparently do nothing to kill the organism in clothing). Once in the body the following symptoms result:

- Open itchy lesions on the skin appear (from tiny holes to many millimeters in length)
- Intestinal discomfort begins or slight anal discomfort
- Straight red lines (track marks) just under the skin are sometimes seen
- A "crawling" sensation is repeatedly felt on the skin and scalp, although nothing is visible to the naked eye
- Fatigue and lowered resistance to disease develops over time
- Localized muscle pains occur
- Sharp, painful tinges in tissue are felt
- Blood (reddish brown) spots can be seen which over time move from deep tissue areas to the surface of the skin

Upon recent investigation by Microbial Diagnostics, Inc., the following was observed concerning selected samples of the lint-like balls:

Dr. Steven Doggett's observations:

“Regarding the samples: contained approximately 15 structures. At the macroscopic level, each appeared to be small masses of lint or natural fibers approximately 0.5 to 1 mm in diameter. At the microscopic level (examined at 100x and 450x), the structures appear as tightly woven, but irregularly shaped stands of natural fibers. Each mass consists of a heterogeneous assemblage of fibers – the vast majority of fibers lack color and are somewhat consistent with Figure 6 provided by Dr. Amin's Parasitetesting.com web site:
http://www.myplanet.net/yeec60bp/figure6.jpg
Approximately 20-30% of the fibers were tinted blue, approximately 5% were tinted red, and less than 5% were
tinted green. Each structure varied in its specific assemblage of colored fibers. Some lacked colored
fibers altogether or contained only one a single tinted fiber, which was usually blue or red. Occasional wool
fibers were also seen and these appeared as dark brown. In my opinion, most if not all of the fibers are
natural - likely cotton or paper and some wool.

Also present within the fibrous matrix were occasional fungal spores. These spores are typical of cross
contamination by background levels of spores suspended in indoor air or deposited as constituents of indoor
dust. There was absolutely no indication that the fibrous structures are fungal in origin or that fungi
co-exist within the assemblage other than by chance alone.”
"Two of the 15 structures contained a single nematode-like organism. Although this is outside my area of expertise, the morphology was most similar to filariform larvae of hookworms or possibly a larval form of Ascaris (roundworm). The organisms were identical in morphology. Their presence was not readily observable because each structure had to be carefully teased apart to reveal the inner “core”. If present, this is where the organism is found." Two of the 15 structures contained a single nematode-like organism. Although this is outside my area of expertise, the morphology was most similar to
filariform larvae of hookworms or possibly a larval form of Ascaris (roundworm). The organisms were
identical in morphology. Their presence was not readily observable because each structure had to be
carefully teased apart to reveal the inner "core". If present, this is where the organism is found.

The above phenomenon may reflect a portion of the organism's life cycle. Perhaps the organism uses the
fibers for protection and dispersal (fibers would become readily aerosolized - especially those that are
less than 1mm in diameter). I was impressed with the fact that each structure is tightly compacted or woven
- but this is not to suggest that the fibers originate from the organism; rather I feel that the fibers
originate from your home (e.g. clothing) and the larvae becomes entrapped within the fibers - or the organism
purposely organizes the fibers into a protective "cocoon". It would seem very odd indeed that the
fibers would enter your skin as you describe. But even if just a few of the fibers entered your skin and assuming this is similar to Dr. Amin's observations, this could explain the incidence of fungal or other
microbial infections - these fibers are anything but sterile. The appearance on external human skin as observed by Dr. Amin would suggest that the cocoons are shed upon entry. The organism may not complete its
life cycle within a human host - as occurs for some species of Ascaris that are specific for other animals
but may enter human hosts with varying degrees of effect. In some instances visceral larva migrans are observed.
My Medical Report…

Contracted what I thought may be mite bites with symptoms in 2nd week of October… origin unknown…

Standard shampoos for lice ineffective.
Was combating condition with: Honey & Vitamin E
Selenium Sulfide 2.5 percent
……………………………………… Hydrocortisone 1 percent with Aloe
………………………………………. Hydrogen Peroxide - ears only
………………………………………. Bathing with small amount of Clorox in the bath
………………………………………. Cut hair to combat problem
……………………………………….. Alcohol (70% Isopropyl)
Washed clothes in Clorox and high heat and dry high heat too. Vacuumed with Hepa Vacuum apt. regularly.
Wounds found everywhere… Hair, scalp, face, legs, arms, groin, feet, hands, ears, under the nails, behind the heal of the foot. No typical crustation like the Norwegian crusted scabies though.
Saw a Diseases and Infection specialist…
Complete labs tests for blood and specimen culture:
Lab diagnosis: SCABIES SCABIES - which was later proven to be incorrect

Biopsy punch down tissue taken from the arm was not valid – the sample was only an inflamed area. I provided samples and Lab concluded a diagnosis on my provided samples of SCABIES. Disease and Infection doctor recommended the Permethrin twice with an eight-day interval.

Blood tests were all negative for the parasites inside blood, but not sure complete blood smear or serology was done for parasites outside the norm. But Serology was done. White blood cell count normal indicating no parasites.
Tests for all other type internal diseases – negative (no STD’s, no HIV, and No cancer). No blood found in feces either.

But I suspect I could have more than one kind of mites.. might be their advanced morphing in new generations… Structures built into wounds going deep.. horny like structures in the head and face area.

November 27th – 30th. NY Lab A: came into Apt. and took samples from window sill, vent, and floor, my vacuum too. Plus they took my submitted samples, and a tissue where I blew my nose. They could Not decipher what it was… nothing found. Send them samples in alcohol later, and then samples preserved in clear tape. Still Lab looked and said they are unknown or look like skin.

Treatments: after condition present for 3 weeks..
Permethrin 2 times.. with 8 days in between application…effect.. Nothing (Nov. 13-21) prescribed by a Diseases and Infections specialist.
They kept coming out in other generations… and from area the Permethrin didn’t get to areas under toes… Cut back toenails, and soaked in water and Hydrogen Peroxide.
Found caked area under toe – scrapped and cleaned in Clorox & water area.
Found caked area behind heal of the foot, scrapped.. and bathed in Clorox & water solution.

Nov. 30th… obtained IVERMECTIN.. took 12 mg.. based on weight.. via first visit to a NYC Dermatologist.
This dosage is normally for someone weighing 130 lbs., I weigh 183. Possibly under dosed for this medication. Notice almost zero difference in the parasites disappearing. Had to combat them with home remedies and other herbs listed later.

Current Physician: Dr. C. – affiliated with North Shore Hospital
Practices in Great Neck, NY

I’m Insured with US Healthcare/Aetna policy as of Jan 1st.. switched from GHI.

Dec. 11th – Saw general physician and he recommended his Long Island dermatologist (2nd one). He examined me for 3 minutes and said I was fine. Bites and infection persisted.

Dec 30th – Checked into Beth Israel hospital to treat eye condition. Scratched eye lightly, when one eye was nearly infected with mite. Applied antibiotic for one week. (Polymyxin B Sulfate and Trimethoprim) Must see an ophthalmologist for a return check up.

Dec. 30th started treatments with Enzyme cleaner.. bathing 1 daily .. Safe Solutions, Inc. Enzyme Cleaner with Peppermint
And cleaned apt. with solution. Also using Sulfa*Derm product.. with sulfur and Vitamin E topically.

Jan. 9th
Saw NYC Dermatologist for 2nd visit.. took Biopsy from head… Had a physical exam with General Practitioner. Dermatologist prescribed mild Steroid topically for cheek area still infected with scabies to heal the area. (Locoid)
Have infected areas near cheeks with what appears to be small little strands of the parasite. Treating with the sulfur compound, and diluted enzyme, and 2x daily the Locoid. Still treating feet, behind heal of foot, face, ears, and head still.

Jan. 11th submitted to Quest Labs 3 fecal tests.. all negative. 1 smear and 2 mixed with solutions. Fecal test was done for blood earlier mid-November, also negative.
Started using Grapefruit Seed Extract in Orange Juice – 10-15 drops plus a few drops in the bath. Eating yogurt to retain natural intestinal bacterial fauna.
Still I’m absolutely sure, a parasite not picked up exists in the fecal matter, I’ve seen it after wiping from a bowel movement. Also experiencing very slight discomfort in the anal area. Tests not picking up parasite via bowel movements or biopsies… Still blowing some out in the nose area too.

Jan. 15th started using improved solution Enzyme Cleaner with Peppermint. Dramatic improvement. Used Baby Powder (talc) and Diatomaceous Earth in shoes and feet.
Used Sulfa Derm on wounds to the face and hands and under nails sometimes.
Rash was dangerously close to the other eye. Wounds on body all healing now after original baths in the first enzyme solution. Enzyme solution now hardening and caking off skin from parasite. Been spraying enzyme cleaner on entire apt. since Dec. 30th and cleaned all areas.. changed hepa vacuum filter after 2x usage. Sheets and bedding changed every 2 days… vacuumed every 2 days, since first getting symptoms.

Jan 18th Started taking Super Lycine Plus + for the wounds.. wounds are clearing up. Taking this 3x daily.
Super Lycine Plus:
Vitamin C: 100mg, L-Lysine 1500mg, Garlic Bulb 200mg, Echinacea Whole Plant 100mg, Propolis 2.1 25mg., Licorice Root 15mg., Goldenseal Root 15mg.

Jan. 18th Nearly all movement gone, except tiny amount in head and ears. Face clearing up fast. General wounds in the body starting to darken or go pink in color. Sometimes movement in groin or feet and then I spray with the Enzyme mix to kill it immediately to prevent the population from growing at all.

Jan. 19th Commenced taking a over the counter medicine to dry up nasal passage to kill off infestation there, taking it 2x daily.. it’s working. Allegra cold medicine.

Suspect I may have a resistant different strain of scabies… have strands.. raised bruises.. movement underneath the wounds.. for the duration of the infection.
Still fighting off the strands of the infection in the sides of face with sulfaderm
and steroid from the dermatologist. Only little movement felt on occasion of
perhaps babies, in groin, and face, foot, and head hair regions. Still spritzing them
with the enzyme watered down solution upon movement.

Jan 20th. Found in outside nail toes more parasites, removed and cleaned, and
cut back nails. Cleaned hands, minor parasites found in thumbs and between
webbing before, applied SulfaDerm. Still excessive debris after Enzyme bath
on ears.. must be dead matter from the parasite.

Jan. 21th Biopsy result: Negative.. no parasite, eggs, or feces from the parasite present from sample taken from the wound area of the head. Maybe the injection needle type
Biopsy went completely underneath the parasite which exists just barely beneath the Skin?

Jan. 26th Commenced taking Omega3 Fish Oils 1000 mg 1 per day for wounds..
And Bee Pollen 500mg for restoration of natural fauna in intestine. And Not Nice to
Toxins for toxin and parasite removal from system

Not Nice to Toxins:
EDTA 100 mg, Red Clover 100 mg, Milk Thistle 100 mg., African Bird Pepper 100mg.
Niacin 25 mg, Black Walnut 25mg, Clove Extract 25mg, Dandelion 25 mg, Hyssop 25mg, Wormwood 25mg, Garlic 25 mg, Ginger 25mg, Sarasaparilla 25mg.
Plus lots of water to drink.

Jan. 27th, Discovered white line tracts under feet, and still possible live parasite in heal area. Must clean out.

Jan. 28th Seeing a Garden City based General physician and Dermatologist, near
Winthrop and North Shore Hospital for possible referrals and overall care. Family
used these doctors and facilities.. 2 samples given were positive under the scope
as parasites.. were submitted to Parasitological Lab. Also Dermatologist took samples from the face.

Jan. 30th Face vastly improving due to Crocodile product on skin.. bringing up and
killing facial and head parasites rapidly. Skin now having a chance to heal, now that the parasite is gone from the cheek area. Bowel movement soft today, saw large tailed parasite in bowl. Continuing parasite internal eradication with
“Not Nice to Toxins” 3 times daily for a 2 month period. (started on Jan 26th this product). Found some scaling tissue on lower leg. Applied Sufa*derm. Also applied it to under the foot – track lines (all white), and to the heel of the foot.
Still movement on head and face from parasites.. and some leg and groin.
Clearing wounds out with Crocodile product on head and face slowly. Improvement noticed. Bought a Pumice brush to scrap effectively and lightly off the parasites from heal and bottom of sole of the foot while in the enzyme bath.

Feb. 9th Face improving due the Enzyme solution applied often, Crocodile product, and SufaDerm product. Wounds clearing also with doctors prescription to Betamethsone Valerate too… but Locoid Lipcream ineffective. Still clearing heel of feet and underside sole.. putting Sulfaderm and Crocodile (rotating each evening) before I go to bed on the feet. Wounds still active on: face, head, rump, and some on the feet.

Still awaiting Lab identification (Stony Brook Labs) of the parasite.

Feb. 10-22nd… Had to sterilize living environment.. threw out most furnishings, and large rug, and many small things.. to avoid larger clean up later. All objects in the apt. will have to be cleaned with the enzyme later.

Cleaned out many wounds, reappearance of parasites in fingernails and toe nails.. cleaned, plus developed a method to recycle clothes. Clothes were re-infecting my back and rump area. Still feel movement sometimes to the head, groin, legs, feet.

WASH procedure: soak clothes in very hot water with enzyme, wash in machine with hot water and Borox and enzyme.. then dry for over 70 minutes.. using small loads in dryer and washer. Then 2 – 10 second intervals of small clothing in the microwave, and then putting the clean clothes in a separate sealed baggie. Now re-infection is nill.

Washed floors with enzyme, cleaned furniture with enzyme or sprayed. Put plastic Tarp on leather couch.. threw away bed. Sleeping with single sheet on top of tarp. Changing it daily… all clothes – one time use.. then put to plastic sealed bags for washing. All washed or dry cleaned clothes are sealed, or wrapped in plastic and isolated. Minimally vacuum or spray floors every day. Bathing now 2x daily with enzyme solution and Borox.

Had bought new underwear at local large drug store, discovered they are laden with the SOURCE of the INFECTION. Will bring in unused sample for Diseases and Infection doctor. I had been buying this underwear for the last several months when I bought new underwear!

My brother dropped off, outside my door, fresh clothing and new underwear from a department store which was safe to use. Threw out most of old clothing, whatever I kept – I had to dry clean.

Garden City Dermatologist submitted samples from face and my own submitted samples to four different labs… Unknown or unidentified parasite.. some samples appeared as skin in the research. Dermatologist sent these to QUEST who interestingly enough misdiagnosed this as scabies earlier in November, yet now they can’t identify it…

Locoid cream works when the infection area of a wound is almost cleaned out completely, using that now a few times daily between baths.. helping to heal active wounds faster. Obtained Desoximetasone Cream but ineffective. Head still the most active area now.. and some on the back. Wounds still clearing. Still some dead possibly in the nose area. Small amounts dead in fecal area.

February 25th, Going to see Diseases and Infection Doctor of high reputation, to present condition and get further analysis. Still infestation in small amounts in feet, hands, back, and moderate still in the head, although all wounds now have considerably less infection within them. Old wounds all healing and disappearing thanks to the Enzyme baths, the Crocodile lotion, and the Betamethasone. The use of the Locoid cream now more effective with the less infected wounds. I am able to find the babies on the body rubbing gently the Crocodile on the skin, and picking off the hard tiny flecks of white parasites.
Sulfa*Derm good for healing wounds and fighting off toe and foot infections.

February 25-26th Identified a similar parasite type or perhaps my Parasite copies this type of mite in places it lives… DEMODEX Mites.. Visited website: http://www.demodexsolutions.com/ which has photos.. and description which closely matches mine. Chinese origin, this parasite could be possibly getting into exports from Taiwan, or Hong Kong. Investigating still. This is not my pest bothering me… but it does the same things to my face, in the sebaceous glands and pores of my cheeks, neck, eye brows, and all around the eyes and eye lids these pests exists as well.

Feb. 28th Received Demodex solution medicine, very effective. Discovered a whole layer on my face of the parasite. Applied aggressively to get up parasite on ear, behind ear, and neck, and entire face. It was difficult to carefully apply and get up the parasites all around the eyes and just under and above the lids, but I did it. Recommended usage is small, but I was interested in getting up as much as possible quickly. Still uncertain
this is the Demodex mite though, because I still have infection to the fingers and toes, and Demodex mites do not go there.

March 2nd, Dramatic amounts of the parasite killed, but they are still roaming (a few) on the body, and I still have some toe and fingernail parasite infections. Will order a large quantity of the Demodex Solution products and continue cleaning and spraying with the Enyzme. Using the crocodile to feel where they are on the legs and arms and get them up, as well as protect areas of the body.

March 5th Made a contact with couple using a Microbiologist that have exactly what I have in symptoms. Microbiologist identified species as a NEMATOID.
They think it may go into the blood as well, and not just the intestines… this is highly dangerous, as many organs could be damaged if not stopped. It is believed to head to the lungs, and to the nasal passage.. Below is a photo of a typical Nematoid which resembles what I have.. Still having re-occuring problems with laundry method of possible re-infection. Will have to try soaking the clothes in alcohol first, before washing.

Link found identifying China outbreak of similar type disease..
This is very interesting… may be the link from the clothing and silks coming from China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong --- and to our department stores. I posted the content beneath my document of this article.

I need a lab to analyze the underwear I bought in the department stores.. .
Contacting the CDC today.. 3/6/2003

I shaved my head today… to find all wounds hidden. Found a very large wound laden with tons of parasite behind the right ear. Spent 8 hours last 2 days, just cleaning all wounds, and cleaning up especially all parasites from the ears, with the Hong Kong Xingfumanlingshu topic ointment.
Still experiencing a little of the invisible ones in face move to parts of the face..
My back and rump got a little re-infected from the clothes which would not clean properly with the Enzyme solution, so I will try the alcohol rinse first. Hands nearly uninfected now… Spraying Enzyme into cleaned wounds.. and re-treating with Demodex topical ointment.

Will have Dermatologist forward samples to the local health department and then to the state if they cannot identify. Sent report today to the CDC.

Ordered a homeopathic product to cleanse the blood as well as the intestines…
from www.awarenessherbs.com/starter.htm.. Cleanse and Rebuild starter pack.

March 6, 2003 Contacted North Shore Hospital and forwarded this report to Diseases And Infection division… looking for some more help.
My photo below taken from the head near the ear, matches the description of the Male parasite found in China exactly. China medical article is below.

March 10th Some re-infection on head and leg.. but face is slowly clearing. Population is lessening. Phoned Dermatologist about condition requesting sample to be sent, but they claim they have no more samples.

March 11th Port Washington, L.I. Diseases and Infection doctors have no references or outsource personnel, and cannot help. Need Microbiologist, Chemist, and D&I doctor.

March 12th Now adding Green Tea tablets, and Garlic tablets to diet to further combat internally the parasite with antitoxins.

March 13th Follow up care appointment with L.I. Dermatologist. Will try to get more valid samples for submission to Local Health Department. Experiencing some intestinal discomfort, and sometimes slight anal discomfort.
Demodexsolutions people will contact China for me regarding this disease.

March 21st Dermatologist could not locate a Local Health Dept. Lab to handle this..
The only state lab which is covered by my insurance is Quest, who twice already could not identify this.

March 21st Called the Dept. of Health for NYC and informed them of my condition.
They are going to call my dermatologist.

March 21st Called the Dept. of Agriculture and the Dept of Defense to get a nematode expert involved. Spoke with a doctor in the Armed Forces Division of Pathology.

Clothes must be soaked thoroughly and remain in alcohol for over 30 minutes and hang to drip dry. This works but the clothes have to remain saturated and only a few items or one can be in a bucket of alcohol at a time, to fully soak the clothing. This seems to kill the babies or larvae.

Demodex Solutions called and finally reached the doctor who studied and tried to find a cure for the China outbreak in the article at the bottom of this document. He found no cure.

Called the local police that handle Bio-weapons and informed them of this problem and forwarded my document to the FBI for a helpful alert. Spoke to the assistant of a Congresswoman in my old home town, and an Assemblywomen ‘s assistant too, to alert the government. Requesting help to get my Dermatologist to forward my samples to the State Health Dept. or a Pathologist to get this examined properly by experts.

March 28th Dermatologist is going to forward my sample to the STATE Health Dept.
Also Assemblywomen is forwarding my report to the State Health Dept.
Contacted the Pest division of the Dept. of Agriculture and a microbiologist is looking into the cotton industry for me regarding the nematodes.

March 29th Using Harmony products now for one week, noticeable difference.
Wounds are healing on their own.
Applied the Demodex pink crème to the head repeatedly and rubbed off parasites 4x .. for 3 days in a row with a shaved head.. again eliminating nests and cleaning up the head. Growth or layers still on the head after numerous applications of removal of the parasite.

April 17th Dermatologist’s assistant called and said the State Health Dept. found no parasite in the sample. Unsure if that meant they just didn’t know what they were looking at or never saw this species. Will arrange for the State Health Dept to mail several beakers for a final collection of many samples thru my dermatologist.
April 25th Beakers have arrived at the dermatologist’s. Reluctant to visit until I confirm more information,
then I may go for further samplings to the state.
Spoke with Ohio State Bacteriologist who confirmed nematodes have to be
mailed in water, not Isopropyl alcohol , they deteriorate shortly after removal
and deflate, but can survive in water for a few days. My original sample
was mailed in alcohol.. and therefore destroyed.
Spoke with Wisconsin University Nematode specialist who said that I
probably have a Filarial type of nematode since the Steiner type does not
have frontal mouth to bite.

May 2nd Located a prominent Bacteriologist that specializes in Nematodes.. he said it wasn’t
possible for it to be mutated via chemical exposure in the environment.. therefore this must have been developed in a laboratory. Will have another 2 people who have the same disease see this doctor, since
they live nearby.. and submit more larvae samples for examination.

May 5th Bought a microscope – awaiting delivery. I soaked unused underwear right out of
the package…the same package that had infected me months earlier, which I
had double baggied. I found 4 black specs, which I’ll analyze when my microscope
arrives.

May 9th Microscope arrived.. with set up this weekend. It’s digital with motion picture and still
capable photography.
Retired scientist I know will contact a company which specializes in sterilization of foods
with electrification. The device may work with clothing too.. not sure.
Baths: I’ve been using – A few squirts of the enzyme in the tub, with 2 cups Borax, 1 cup
Epson salt, 1 teaspoon of Sulphur chopped fine, 8 drops of Tea Oil… after bathing for
20 minutes to 30 minutes.. I let the water drain.. and then shower and wash off all
debris with anti-bacterial soap.
I have several spray guns now for spotting and stopping their movements… I use the
Enzyme with hot water, or an alcohol spray, or the Equine spray.

May 23th Took digital photos of the organisms live.. the nematode and bacterium.
Guessing the bacterium may be the Photorhabdus luminescens as it is the most common one associated with the nematodes used in crops and experimentation as well as genetic manipulation. I try to obtain shortly the oral antibiotic that may eliminate at least the bacterium. This particular bacterium can leave it’s symbotic
relationship and continue on to attack it’s host independently. Also the other possibility is this could be the Heterorhabdus species… genetically altered too.
Antibiotics I will be obtaining to address anaerobic bacterium internally and Microbiotic bacteria are: Amoxycillin clavulanate or Floxin, oral Cephalexin, and Metronidazole oral.
Metronidazole is used primarily for anaerobic bacterial infections., Amoxycillin-clavulenate is used for both gram-positive and gram-negative bacterial infections. Both are somewhat broad spectrum in their activity. Generally, an antibiotic susceptibility test is performed to determine the activity of an antibiotic for aerobic infections but anaerobes or generally more susceptible to the classes of antibiotics used to treat such infections. Photorhabdus is an aerobic organism showing a variable activity to drug. Ideally, susceptibility tests would normally be done to determine the organisms susceptibility to a particular antibiotic. But I don’t have such a luxury.. as I will be my own guinea pig. Such in-vitro studies do not always correlate with response in the host. This appears to be the case with Photorhabdus in some instances. Bottom line is if it works, use it, if not, switch to a different drug.

http://staff.bath.ac.uk/bssnw/photorhabdus_luminescens.htm
http://staff.bath.ac.uk/bssnw/GenomicRev.PDF

Added to my regrime: Barberry, Colostrum, Green Tea extract pills, and Asparagus extract pills.

June 4th Going for a blood test. Checking the Eosinophils, Absolute – levels.
Should dictate if I have parasites still in the blood, but if this is a Nematode, they are very
difficult to find in the blood.. and they hide in the joints.
Will try applying a Metronidozole based topical cream of higher base content which I
Can absorb though the undersides of the feet to kill internal bacterial problem.
The Demodex Solutions cream has already 2% percent concentration.

Typical Nematode drawing below:







Observations, Conclusions, Hypothesis:



1) This is an unknown and not yet classified parasite which emulates scabies, but much more resistant and highly infectious. Initial wounds not as itchy as scabies which throws off those trying to diagnose it. I would name this the Skin Scabie for it’s properties of camouflage on the outer surface. It can obviously morph to other shapes in other generations.

2) The Parasite is resistant to Ivermetin, Permethrin, high heat (unless over 1 hour), intense cold (only puts it to a state of suspended animation), alcohol (saw one swim in it like it was water), and impervious to common bug sprays, and may not require oxygen – if it can go in the body and live internally.

3) Parasite goes internal after a time, (exact interval unknown, depends on infestation amount and time with infection). Parasite is not detected by common methods and blood serology tests. White blood cell count will remain normal. Parasite may enter via nose or mouth.. and go to the intestinal area and exit anally. Unknown if it survives coming out anally to attack the body again. Parasite is visible in the toilet after bowel movement, and I have seen movement of the parasite in the toilet. Suspect it lives in the intestinal area only, as X-ray I had done did not show enlarged organs. Also I’ve only experienced weight loss, and no other symptoms normally associated with a parasite.

4) Parasite emulates skin, and easily hides any where on the body. Common places to hide – nails underneath, sides of nails (appearing like a hang-nail), under soles of feet (in tracks), heel of the foot (almost like a crusted scabie), legs, arms, rump, back, face, hair – with tracks the thickness of a nail going through the head. Tracks are eaten in the skin in which babies are hatched. The babies are like a very hard spec of sand – white on skin, and slightly dark in a white sink.

5) Type of wounds: a) nickel, dime, and curved swirl shapes all over. B) In the head and neck – specs of flakes of the individual ones of the parasite in clusters. c) Sliced into the skin surface, almost invisible, like a sheath of skin, and in all the wounds.. the outer circle of the wound contains lots of the parasite too. Wound depth.. 1/16 to 1/32 of an inch or less.

6) All dermatology tests of biopsies show negative on this parasite, with punch down, and needle. A shaving must be taken. Problem with this is, the parasite which eats and emulates skin, may shed (like a spider or snake) it’s outer shell upon death or being lifted out from the host. All that remains is the structure or external skeleton, which upon analysis appears to be only skin. The spider or parasite may be using this skin as it’s shell as it feeds and builds in on itself as an armor. It also prevents the body from attacking from what appears to be it’s own skin. However, a low grade magnification under the microscope clearly reveals a parasite shell or structure. Also tests on this fecally (both smears and solution sediment samplings) also do not turn up showing the parasite. The screening methodology for this parasite is ineffective with the current means. Dermatologist should not assume healing wounds means the patient is recovering, or responding to the Ivermectin, especially if homeopathic products are being used simultaneously.

7) Putting the parasite in alcohol causes it to move and reveal itself. It balls up like a spider for protection. Unknown how long it can last in alcohol. It can be spotted on a black sock worn by an infected individual as a tiny white flake, easily mistaken for lint.

8) The Parasite is spreading not only through person to person, but I hope to prove it’s originating from the clothing manufacturers importing certain items made within 3rd world countries that get shipped an put directly onto our store shelves.

9) Parasite manifests itself in contagion differently among family members depending on their immune system and exposure.

10) Parasite also appears in different shapes, but the most common shape is a circle or partial clover leaf shape with a tail. Tail is used for movement. Parasite has extreme adhesive properties, and can stick to any object and remain there till touched. Parasite can within seconds melt into the skin, and becomes nearly invisible on the surface at first… it can be spotted carefully though, and it can be felt in areas with roughness on the skin surface. Dermatologists upon first look will say these areas when shown are merely skin. Scraping with bring up the “specific” shapes of the parasite, as where skin would not. Some of the parasites reside above the skin, and others from this species reside just under (endodermic). Once the parasite attaches itself, it starts biting and attaching itself to the skin area. I have removed one parasite in such an instance with the Crocodile lotion “WHILE” it attempted to integrate into my skin.

11) Movement capabilities – unsure, but it comes off infected person in flakes of skin and attaches to clothes. Because of it hiding in the hand, it’s easy to infect via a hand-shake. I saw it move in the alcohol and it’s front body has some kind of pincers to probably cut skin, but I do not know if it can move.

12) If the patient has the infection for a while, wounds with the parasite are UV light sensitive. You will feel lots of movement if under bright artificial lights.

13) Wounds will many times appear on exactly both sides of the body. For instance.. a wound to the left of the eye.. a wound to the right of the eye.



OBJECTIVES:

1) Classify Parasite or new type Nematoid? Get Parasitologist, Bacteriologist and Nematologist involved.

2) Report to local health authorities, physicians, and CDC for warning an analysis.

3) Verify sample of clothing contains direct from the bag – parasite.

4) Locate manufacturer’s source if from clothing.

5) Stop imports of potentially life threatening and debilitating parasites.

6) Develop a cure.. which now can only be stopped with enzyme and other homeopathic products.

7) Instruct physicians on how to spot this infectious disease and not mistake it for scabies or a similar parasite. All to often this is mistaken for a psychological phenomenon. These are real insects, biting, nesting, and invading the patient’s whole body, causing intense discomfort, harm, and trauma. These insects may appear invisible, but they are not, and they are easily found if someone knows how to find them, and what they look like.

NEW Conclusions:

The nematode I believe is an enteropathogenic biocontrol species which has been genetically modified to be of very small size. The Steinernema riobravis is one genetically modified species used today in the USA for cotton. Many species are used already all over our country as well as the world. The way it works is: agriculturalists (since the late 80s) release millions of these tiny biocontrol worms into the soil of crops (in particular citrus, cotton and corn), into golf course turfs, gardens, etc., etc. to parasitize and kill off other "pest" insects. Unfortunately, there is no guarantee that these nematodes would stop at insects, when warm-blooded hosts may be readily available. (There are absolutely NO controls by our government regulating either the testing, distribution or application of these creatures!) The worms each contain a unique type of bacterium (which they themselves are immune to, and this bacteria has been genetically "enhanced" to make them more lethal) and is the deadly element released once the worm invades the larger insect host. The bacterium could explain the bizarre formation of fibers and other amorphisms in the skin of the host. Obviously the clothing or textile (raw cotton or processed cloth) is not being sanitized and getting into garments which are distributed through our country (USA). In Columbia, they treat crops with dioxin, and some crops have been exposed to paraquat via the drug cartel wars which may have modified the organism. And many clothing manufacturers use Columbia for a source of cotton. And numerous other chemical treatments are used on crops there. Also many third world countries lack the stringent sterilizing elements found in the US methods. Enteropathogenic nematodes are used by ALL countries that produce cotton.

However the shape of this parasite appears more like the filarial Nematode species. This has to be a cross between several species… it behaves like a silk worm, and demonstrates Scabies or spider like tendencies.. and it is producing some chemical particles from my skin and hair… also there is a bacterial element and that bacterial could be genetically altered bacteria which works with the nematode, as they do have symbiotic relationships

It is possible that the primary damage or core of this disease is bacterial, although I do not believe it is Lymes disease, as is sometimes supposed. Obviously, if bacterial, then the vector of it becomes secondary in
importance. In this case, a microscopic nematode, which may itself have been vectored by a small species of screw worm fly found throughout our the Midwest and Eastern coast. One or more of these insects carried with it a new form of genetically modified, heat-resistant bacteria, capable of producing fiber. Please don't misunderstand, I am not suggesting that this is bio-terrorism. On the contrary, that these types of bacterial strains may have been produced with our own government's consent and even involvement for the purposes of research and development.

Second, the bacteria involved in this disease do not consist of one but multiple strains, depending on their source of origin. Thus, while all those experiencing this disease present with certain symptoms which are
common to all, many individuals manifest symptom variations which are quite different from those of others. There exists such a diversity in the commonality, because the bacteria that one person or group received are
slightly different from the bacteria another received, although they are designed to produce similar end results.

Third, the bacterial strains have been engineered for the purposes of creating raw materials biologically, especially fibers which will be used in creating new textile markets. These bacteria have been extensively
engineered and tested over the last ten years by a plethora of companies (DuPont, Honywell, Nexia, etc.) including the U.S. Army, using both plant and mammal tissue as a medium to verify their ability to produce these materials. Many failures were reported and the inadequate bacterial strains were "discarded."

Fourth, these bacterial strains have been disposed of indiscriminately, with improper safety protocols, much as were the many toxic wastes of the last generation's industries. This is because there are no effective safety
measures in place within our government or any others (of which we are aware). Instead, the public is told that these types of research and products are absolutely environmentally friendly, since they are not "toxic" but purely biological. It is alarming to think how easily the mutant bacterial strains could spread to different vectors once outside the laboratory. NOTE: I am not implying that such leakage would be intentional, but merely accidental based on lax protocols.

Finally, the bacteria which produce fibers can do so inside the skin as well as outside it, as long as there are available proteins for it to use. The "fiber balls" that are seen so often with the disease are in fact
produced by the bacteria (not nematodes, or any other invertebrate species), using the proteins from skin, hair, cloth, etc. The bacteria themselves are quite infective, being able to invade the skin, and are felt as "itchy, stinging" sensations on the skin when they enter. When they are multiplying and (often) rapidly producing fibers, they can be felt as "tingling" or "crawling" sensations, on or under the skin.

NOTE: Now as we know, the bacterial spores infest clothing readily, and are quite heat resistant, a factor to which everyone with these fiber balls in their laundry can testify! (We must bake our clothes for 13 hours at 250 degrees to finally kill all the spores or boil 30 minutes & cool 30 minutes 3x in a row.) This heat resistance is yet another verification that the bacteria have been genetically modified. As you may know, before the 1960s, it was commonly held in scientific circles that even the hardiest bacteria could not withstand lengthy temperatures of over 160 degrees. This notion was completely shaken when Thomas D. Brock of the University of Wisconsin-Madison began to study bacterial strains in the hot springs of Yellowstone which actually thrived and reproduced at near-boiling temperatures! Sometime in the seventies and at least by the eighties, the high heat genes in these bacteria began to be spliced by scientists into other bacteria (Bt bacterium used in GMO corn or cotton, for instance) and other organisms, enabling them to become far more heat resistant. Even naturally occurring pathogenic nematodes used in crop control are now being infected (in the laboratories) with heat resistant bacteria to make them more "effective" in killing their hosts.
Additional thoughts and care of body:

1) In the wound which can be open.. or a pimple that appears closed, but spews out parasites... the rye bread shaped seed or opaque or red parasite moves throughout the exterior of the body. It drops down and clings, or very slowly moves on the skin. This is the tinkling sensation you feel of them moving, but see nothing in the area. When there is no wound there.. they are there, and possibly the worms are in clusters in the vicinity. Removing it in the area, stops the sensation right away, obviously, but it ALSO CLEANS THE AREA.
I believe this type of worm carries the eggs too, and can also sting you, and morphs in several shapes in it's growth. It is initially a completely clear transparent worm, which I could see once due to the backdrop being a white sink with a tiny bit of water. As it grows, it's color is more readily seen as white.

2) If the wound is open.. you can clean out some laying in the wound growing there.. or many!!! And the other type is the male, which I believe likes to do the digging in the wound with his horned head.
So therefore the others must be the female which assume the long strand shape.
2) If you put on clothes.. since the female nematode is perhaps a cotton one.. it's genetic coding kicks in.. and it instantly tries to lay and egg there, hence you feel the activity. Where ever you feel scratchiness is where on your body, the female worm is invisibly layered on the skin. If you feel pain, chances are an egg in the clothes is hatching and boring down into your skin in a new area.

So, if you clean up your body of all the areas.. which my be your entire body of the external worms, when you put clothes on, they will logically not get re-infected with larvae. And only get re-infected
in the place where you still have traces of the larvae left after laundering.
The female worm can lay on an object and as you touch it shoot a dart into you.. the dart may or may not be some kind of bacterial antigen it uses to try to paralyze you.. but you are not an insect, and the
dose is way too small. The reason again you do not see it readily, it that is has a transparent color initially.

Now for the sci-fi part... The Microbiologist claims the white squiggly stuff, or worms that are white and sometimes clear, are chemical.
a) This suggests perhaps - the sample immediately decomposes upon exit and only a chemical remains.. or
B) The parasite is hidden in all tests because it is a bio-chemical weapon - and a chemical is not screened out in a parasite test.
Thereby making most physicians dubious that you have anything in your system.
My research today, may explore that possibility and how it can be done..
c) The female clear parasite worm externally is not a female at all... it is a bacterium which the nematode traps in the nest and collects the bacterium from. And if this is the cotton nematode, that
bacterium is genetically and chemically engineered. Which would explain why the infection is so great and hard to get rid of... it would also explain the patterns of white on the furnishings and pipes. Those could be bacterium instead of fungi in patterns.
1) So I've been cleaning my body steadily with the pink Demodex cream and Crocodile, and taking the Harmony products.. and my body is cleaning up.. but if I do not manually clean the body, and clean out the wounds.. the external female will continue to terrorize my body. The parasite has 3 factors making it very hard to beat. (a) It disguises itself genetically so the body does not readily reject it in the skin area - therefore the necessity to manually clean out the wound and remove the ring around the wound of the parasite trying to keep the wound open. (B) The external female does not readily wash off with baterial soap or come off easily - manually scraping a loosening with the pink chinese Demodex medicine (which kills it too), and the crocodile helps to pare down the layers. © This thing is in layers.. so if you kill off the primary layer, the other layers beneath are still alive. So you have to get off that layer.. and reapply a medicine to kill the next layer.. or loosen all layers, and clean out the wound repeatedly till it is empty. Then apply the enzyme once or twice for cleaning it.. and then the pink crème over and over, which helps heal it. (d) I do not know how much of the Harmony internal product will kill off of the external parasite, given this could be a chemical bio agent, I don't know. It's why I am so focused on cleaning the body externally as well.

The process is hard.. since it covers your entire body.. head to toe, from in the ear to the scalp of the head to under your fingers and toe nails. To assume any area of your skin is safe is not a good assumption. Also, if you dry out your primary layer of skin on your head.. with hair on it.. you can bet they might be there in the pores of the skin, and not seen.
I will as a precaution, if and when I beat this.. send my sample then to Arizona (fecal) for examination by Dr.. Amin. Just to make sure I'm clean inside too.

Keep some clean new clothes on hand.. so as you progress in your cleaning of the body towards the end, if your clothes are not getting done 100 percent, you can move to the new clothes and avoid re-infection with eggs. Lastly, we need to find out exactly what the CHEMICAL IS??? This chemical (non-living) in nature in the form of compressed "translucent flakes," could be our best lead.

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The next four photos digitally taken after putting the sample in clear tape are among the most common shape of the parasite found when lifting it off the body. Notice one you can see some inner digestive system.




This photo above is a sample taken from the face, where they were bunched together in a cluster. Here’s an individual one above.



This sample was from the fecal area



This was taken from out of the nose.



This was taken from the head.. near the ear area and lifted from under the skin. I believe this is the male nematode which uses the horn for its digging into skin. This photo matches exactly the description of the male nematode in the China article listed at the bottom of this report.






This was taken from the head. Notice the tail formation resembles a devil tail.

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OK State University, Tulsa Doctors Examine Unknown 'Fibers'

6-24-6



It sounds like something from the Twilight Zone. People claiming to have strings, not hairs, growing out of their skin.

Doctors and nurses say even they can't believe what they're seeing.

Dr. Raphael Stricker, who treats morgellon's patients, says it's really very bizarre to see the strings. Ginger Savely is a nurse practitioner who works with morgellon's patients.
She says, "This didn't seem like anything I'd ever seen that was coming out of the human body."

So what are these 'strings' and why are they lurking under people's skin? Disease detectives around the country are baffled.

Carol Arledge, a rancher in West Texas, was one of the first people to see white fibers and black specks popping out of her skin. When she noticed the 'strings' she went to her dermatologist.
Arledge says, "She said, 'I can't believe you did this to yourself.' I said do you want me to come back if it doesn't get any better? She said, 'no, if it doesn't get better, you need to find a psychiatrist.'"
But Carol says she did not do this to herself, regardless of what her dermatologist believes.

Another patient, Marnie Weinke, says there is no way she would have just scratched sores into her own face.

Carol and Marnie aren't alone, thousands of others from various parts of the country complain of similar ailments. They say it feels like something is crawling beneath their skin and that they are sick and exhausted. Recently, even the Centers for Disease Control has started looking into morgellon's disease.

The mystery of morgellon's soon caught the attention of a Tulsa researcher, Dr. Randy Wymore. He wondered if the fibers in the skin had simply rubbed off of people's clothing. He says when he looked at the fibers from clothing and the fibers found under the skin there was no similarity.

So he decided to consult with collegues at Oklahoma State University.

OSU doctors admit at first they were a little skeptical, but they agreed to see morgellon's patients. They have taken samples of the fibers found under the skin and then put them under a microscope. What they found were black, red, and blue fibers lurking under the skin. Doctors at OSU have seen about 25 patients, and say they are convinced morgellon's is real.

But the medical establishment says they are wrong.

Dr. Noah Scheinfeld, from Columbia University, says morgellon's is not real. He says it's all in the patients head. Dr. Scheinfeld says, "This is somebody who is picking at themselves and people pick at themselves for all sorts of reasons." He says once patients create a sore they shove fibers into it.

However, the OSU doctors say that is not possible. They say most of the fibers they found were away from the sores, under unbroken, smooth skin. Still, no matter who you believe, there's one question that none of the doctors could answer. What are these fibers?

Dr. Vitaly Citovsky, a Suny Stoney Brook Biologist, says he might have the answer. He says he found a gene that only exists in plants in the skin of the morgellons patients. Many of those who claim to have morgellan's say they have spent time working in the soil.

As research continues the debate will rage on.

Dr. Rhonda Casey, from Oklahoma State University, says "I would challenge any of these physicians who think that we are just feeding into the delusions to come and examine a group of these patients and see what I've seen."

Delusion or disease, the threads of this argument continue on.


http://www.ksbitv.com/hotlinks/3216861.html

Worldwide reports of Morgellons Disease

Morgellons - Insect Vectors, Chemtrails, Paranoia Smearing

By Edward Spencer
6-24-6


Yesterday, I went to UC Davis to inquire about electron microscopy Today, I visited Ginger Savely, Nurse Practioner, in SF. Ms. Savely treats a large number of Morgellons patients and is extremely knowledgeable.

The fibers are extremely tough and difficult to pull out. They appear in several colors, red, blue, black and clear Radionucleotide brain scans reveal patchy decreased blood flow consistent with feeling of fatigue and confusion. Pulling on a fiber produces a feeling that a network under the skin is being pulled. One can use a hand-held, lighted, 30 power microscope from Radio Shack to examine the skin.

Treatment, consisting of antibiotics and anti-fungal medication, helps rapidly but the disorder is not eliminated. Some patients have disfiguring raw lesions. I saw a striking photo of a pretty young woman, before and after.

One should keep in mind the fact that the Center For Disease Control has stonedwalled the patients, including MDs and nurses, and a disinformation site, Morgellons Watch, has been created to discredit sufferers of this disorder. The itching is extreme and thoughts of suicide are common.

The use of the word "paranoid" in disinformation is common. It is a common ploy to say that anyone who says that something very strange is going on, is crazy. This applies to Morgellons...and to political situations. The Dark Forest of Paranoia and Conspiracy has been created in the public mind to dissuade inquiring souls from looking under the rocks, for fear of being labeled kooks.

Anecdotal data indicates that prior to getting Morgellons, people and entire families experience attacks from fleas, lice, ticks, massive mosquito swarms, bed bugs and other things usually missing from middle class life. Parasites not usually seen on humans may infest the skin.

What is the relation of Chemtrail aerosol sprays to Morgellons? I don't know of any proof, but the Air Force, FAA, government agencies, etc. have denied the existence of Chemtrails from the beginning. There are unconfirmed reports that Lyme can be spread from chemtrails.

With the possibility of Morgellons being spread by a host of insect vectors - lice, fleas, etc. - one wonders if this disorder which probably represents several similar pathogens, is a man-created disease designed to reduce the population.

If aerosol sprays infect insect vectors, which then infect humans, the entire surface of the earth might have been made, or is in the process of being made, uninhabitable for human beings unless those human beings are protected by specific unknown (to us) agents or vaccines. If Laura Bush started sprouting how would she be treated?

Ed MD

Morgellons - Mysterious Ecto-Parasites

SafeSolutionsInc.com
6-24-6


A mysterious skin disease is currently spreading across America, and doctors are searching for answers on how to stop the epidemic.

The disease, called Morgellons Disease, is a parasite-like infection that literally makes the infected person's skin crawl. The disease has already been found in thousands of patients in Florida , Texas and California.

"I would lay in the bed and it felt like an army of ants just crawling over the bed, all over my body," says one Morgellons Disease sufferer.

"It never goes away," says another. "It doesn't die, it doesn't leave."

What sounds like a science fiction movie is actually real life for the unlucky people who have contracted the disease which leaves painful sores all over the body. The sores ooze blue fibers, white threads and little black specks of sand-like material.

The worst part, patients say, is the creepy and constant sensation of bugs crawling under their skin.

Also discouraging, is the patient's treatment by doctors, who have little knowledge about the disease, and in specific cases have lacked compassion for the sufferers.

"I was so humiliated from the three doctors that I went to, that I just refused to go back," said on patient.

Becky Bailey moved out of her Austin, Texas home and into a trailer hoping to escape the bugs that torment her.

"We ripped out our carpet and burned our carpet and furniture and move out into our R-V and they were still one me."

Without medical help, suffering families researched their symptoms on their own by way of the internet. Finally, they were able to put a name to their pain ­ Morgellons.

The sickly skin disease has actually been around for centuries. In 1935, an English physician wrote a paper about Morgellons including excerpts from medical journals from the 1600's, describing the disease.

Unfortunately, not much was known then about Morgellons -- and not much has been learned in the more than 400 years since.

What is known, is that many of people who may have it, suffer from these symptoms: constant itching/crawling sensation, chronic fatigue, brain fog or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, bipolar disorder, depression, joint swelling or hair loss

What you should do if you have these symptoms, is as puzzling as the disease itself.

One woman in Pittsburgh, PA made it her mission to find out what causes and what will cure this bizarre disease.

Mary Leitao is a biologist and the creator the Morgellons Research Foundation in Pittsburgh.

Her goal is to get State Health Agencies and the Center for Disease Control (CDC) to study this disease.

"It's inhumane that these people have been allowed to go home and have been forced to research this day in and day out for years on their own," says Leitao.

Leitao's motivations come from her 6 year old boy Drew. Four years ago, he began to feel the itch.

"He started describing bugs. He said, mommy, bugs, and he would scratch."

Then came the sores that shed the fibers. Mary took drew to the doctor and the doctor said it was nothing to worry about.

"I was going to find an answer, or I was going to have to take my life, that's all there was too it."

Doctors don't know what causes the disease, who is at risk and exactly how many people may be suffering. The Morgellon Foundation says they have about 12 hundred people registered on their site. Those are only people who have a computer and happened to find them online.

In Jacksonville , more than a dozen cases have been found.

For Anne Dill, standing in her backyard, looking over the lake is physically and emotionally painful.

This silence and solitude serves as a constant reminder of what her family is facing.

"We're going to lose everything, our house, our dreams," says Dill.

Five years ago, the dills bought their dream home in Lake City. They spent most of their free time at their lake with friends, and thought life was pretty close to perfect.

Then, three years ago, Anne, her husband and their four children all got very sick at the very same time.

They think they have Morgellons, even though they have no idea how they would have contracted it.

Morgellons is an unusual parasite-like skin disease, which produces irritating sores all over the body.

These sores ooze blue fibers, white threads and little black specks of sand-like material.

The Dills say they're also plagued with a constant, creepy crawling feeling of bugs under their skin.

However, the most agonizing symptom is the chronic fatigue. The Dills are so tired and so weak, they spend nearly all of their time, at home.

The father, Tom Dill is the sickest. Along with the Morgellons, he's developed signs of Lou Gehrig's disease. It's a neurological disorder that robbed him of his muscle control. He's now bound to a wheelchair and has trouble speaking. Tom doesn't know if his two conditions are related. That has him worried about his children.

"I don't want to believe that what happened to me, happened to them."

But answers are hard to come by. In fact, doctors tell them the "bugs" they feel and sores they see, are only in their minds. In medical terms, they are delusional parasitosis.

"I don't know how a doctor couldn't see that, it's ridiculous, I can see it, I know there's something there, I'm like a freshman in high school and I know that there's something wrong."

Doctor Hardesh Garg is an internal medicine specialist in Jacksonville. He isn't surprised by the reaction the dills have been getting from doctors.

"A lot of times, not all of us, who feel like, if it doesn't exist in my medical book, it really doesn't exist and it must be a figment of your imagination," says Garg.

Doctor Garg has never seen a patient with Morgellons. However, he says this skin condition needs to be studied.

"Until we know what's causing it, can't say if it's infectious or not or how dangerous it is."

No doctors on the First Coast or Florida could be found who know anything about Morgellons. However, not all hope is lost. One medical professional in Austin, Texas may have found a clue to the Morgellon's mystery.

Ginger Savely is a nurse practitioner who specializes in treating the tick borne Lyme disease. She also has first hand experience with the mystery disease.

"Right now I think I have about twenty eight Morgellons patients," says Savely.

According to Savely, the anti-biotics she gives to patients with Lyme are also working on some Morgellon's patients.

But this treatment is also unproven, and since doctors don't know if it's contagious, the Dills say their home is now their prison.

So, the Dills spend a lot of quality time together. Five year old Hanna has been one of the Dill's secrets to survival, as her love for singing songs keeps the family entertained.

Recently researchers have been uncovered who have just published a study on an unknown skin disease with the exact same symptoms.

It is promising research that points to a critter that could be lurking in your home, and research the Dills may feel that every family should look into.

Since the CBS47 investigation began digging into the Morgellons mystery, dozens of people on the First Coast have been in contact, desperately looking for help.

One of these people is a nurse who lives in Saint John's Country. Her story is a striking example of how most patients with this bizarre skin disease are shut out by their doctors.

At the end of another exhausting day for Jane Waldoch, "I go to bed at 8:30 , 9 o'clock. I feel like a little old lady and I'm 51 years old."

Jane's fatigue is one of the many symptoms she has of the mystery skin disease, some call Morgellon's.

As a nurse for 24 years, her first reaction was to see a doctor. However, that is where her trouble began.

"I'm absolutely disappointed, disillusioned and very, very angry at the medical community," says Waldoch.

In the past year, she's been referred to all kinds of doctors.

"Internal medicine, multiple dermatologists, infectious disease, then it went to Rheumatology, Endocrinology, Neurology..." she says.

The doctors saw the sores, but couldn't figure out what was causing them.

"They'd look at me and say, 'Its dry skin, quit worrying about it.' I'm saying, 'This is the weirdest dry skin I've ever seen in my life!'"

Still, she followed doctors' orders, and took her medications; all two dozen bottles of them.

But none of these drugs worked. So Jane began collecting samples of what was coming out of her skin. She thought it would help her doctors diagnose this bizarre and painful skin condition.

She was wrong.

Doctors took it as a sign that Jane was delusional.

"One of the hallmark clues to delusional parasitosis is what they call the matchbox sign. I guess in the older days people would take their samples in little match boxes to their physician," she says.

Mary Leitao from the Morgellons foundation says patients would do this to prove they were telling the truth.

Jane says she finds fibers that look like crunched up bugs in her sheets every morning. They come from the dozens of sores that cover her arms, legs, back and neck.

"I never thought I'd be in this position, of being embarrassed with who I am, and what I look like."

However, Jane is coming forward, hoping her story will help find a cure, especially for the youngest victims.

Jane is not the only case of the mystery disease found on the first coast. More than 100 people have confirmed they have been suffering from the exact same symptoms, some for as long two decades. Many of them have been diagnosed with delusions of parasitosis.

One research foundation estimates that there are more than 13-hundred people across the country with Morgellons symptoms.

The true number may be a lot higher.

Mary Leitao is a biologist and the executive director of the Morgellons Foundation. The foundation is studying this mysterious skin disease.

They call it Morgellons -- because it looks and sounds exactly like an infection doctors wrote about in the 1600's.

However, 400 years later, these stories don't add up to a diagnosis.

However, researchers may be getting the help they need to find a major breakthrough.

Deborah Altschuler is the president of the National Pediculosis Association in Boston, Massachusetts. The foundation was created to increase awareness about head lice and protect children from pesticides.

Altschuler has been studying a disease that sounds exactly like Morgellons disease.

"People were calling us with very similar symptoms from all over the country," says Altschuler.

The NPA teamed up with the Oklahoma State Department of Health to study the creepy crawlers.

They took skin samples from 20 patients who claim they have the bugs, but were diagnosed by their doctors as delusional.

Researchers found collembolan, a microscopic critter, in 18 of the 20 patients.

Collembola feed on algae, bacteria and decaying matter. They thrive in wet or damp surroundings, and can be found under leaky kitchen or bathroom sinks, swimming pools, and the soil of potted plants.

The report was published in the journal of the New York Entomological Association. However, it wasn't enough evidence to get the centers for disease control to take action.

The CDC told Altschuler that the collembola was not a danger to humans, even though she says the CDC has shown her no specific study to prove it.

The Morgellons Foundation says it was also shot down by the CDC.

If the research on the collembola is right, researchers still have to figure out how serious these critters are to your health, and they have to find out how to kill them.


http://www.safesolutionsinc.com/morgellons.htm

'Horrifying' Morgellons Ends Career Top Baseball Pitcher

Mystery Disease Spreads Through Entire Family

KTVU.com
6-26-6


"Prof Wymore says his tests rule out not only textile fibers, but also worms, insects, animal material and even human skin and hair. He says the filaments are not an external contamination."


OAKLAND -- A horrifying and fascinating disease is affecting thousands of people in the Bay Area, along the Gulf Coast and in Florida. Though some doctors have claimed the malady is psychosomatic, other scientists are making headway unraveling the mystery of Morgellons Disease.

Former Oakland A's pitcher Billy Koch has it. And so do his wife and their three children. And though they can afford top medical care, doctors have no answers.

It started in Oakland four years ago. Koch saved 44 games and was the top reliever in the major leagues. His fastball wowed crowds. And then the strangeness began.

"He freaked out. He wanted to ignore it I wanted to too. But when it comes to your kids, you gotta stop ignoring it," said Koch's wife Brandi.

She describes their symptoms: "It was the scariest thing I had ever realized in my entire life. There was matter and black specks coming out and off of my skin."

Within two years -- at age 29 -- Billy Koch was out of baseball, partly because of the uncontrollable muscle twitching that went on for months at a time and often kept up him up all night.

The disease is characterized by slow healing skin lesions that often extrude small, dark filaments, especially after bathing.

"That's when it would really just ooze -- literally ooze out of my skin," explained Brandi Koch.

The couple was at wit's end after numerous doctors not only provided little in the way of relief, but actually were skeptical about their health problems: "There's no reasonable explanation for it. I'm not seeing things. l'm watching it happen. We're pretty sane people" lamented Billy.

Infectious disease specialist Dr. Neelam Uppal sympathized with the Kochs' plight: "They've seen several doctors, [and] everybody's told them they're crazy. It's in their head. They're delusional."

Dr. Uppal gave the Kochs and fifteen other patients a powerful anti-parasite medicine and antibiotics that helped temporarily. But the filaments come back.

Testing of the filaments brought no results, according to Dr. Uppal: "I've seen [it]; sent it to the lab. They can't identify it. They'll say 'They're nothing.'"

The reaction of medical professionals has made a difficult situation even harder for Brandi Koch: "It's not enough that you're suffering and hurting. It's 'You're an idiot!' and 'You're crazy!' on top of it. I'm really hurt and sad and scared."

The Kochs may be the most recognizable of more than 3,000 families nationwide reporting these same unexplained symptoms. There are curious clusters, in Florida, along the Gulf Coast and in the San Francisco Bay Area. That's where we begin our investigation into new clues to this medical mystery.

San Francisco physician Rafael Stricker took samples last spring from Bay Area sufferers. Patients report pustules and filaments that most doctors dismiss. Dermatologists claimed the filaments were all delusions, although none had studied them.

Oklahoma State University Professor Randy Wymore was the first scientist to conduct research on this disconcerting disease. He says it's the biggest mystery he's ever been involved in.

The UC Davis trained physiologist is leading a medical team at Oklahoma State University in Tulsa, researching what is now called Morgellons Disease.

With cooperation from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Wymore's team is studying Bay Area patients and others from around the country. His first finding disputes the frequent diagnosis of delusions.

"Pathologists and dermatologists and lab reports [said] that these were textile fibers appearing in the skin of the sufferers. Now that's just not true, to be perfectly blunt about it," says Prof. Wymore.

Wymore says his tests rule out not only textile fibers, but also worms, insects, animal material and even human skin and hair. He says the filaments are not an external contamination.

Instead, they are a substance that materializes somehow inside the body, apparent artifacts of something infectious. More results are expected soon. And Wymore says skin problems are not the worst symptoms.

He says a neurotoxin or microorganism may disturb muscle control and memory.

"The neurological effects are the much more severe, life altering and much more dangerous of the conditions," explains Prof. Wymore.

This month, Georgia began a statewide Morgellons registry. Prof. Wymore says he is about to begin a clinical trial and offers this to sufferers: "We know there's something going on here. You're not delusional."

Prof. Wymore has just released an open letter to doctors treating patients with Morgellons symptoms. It asks physicians to take it seriously, saying these patients are likely suffering from a still untreatable emerging disease.


http://www.ktvu.com/news/9264350/detail.html

Doctors Make Progress With Mysterious Disease

UPDATED: 4:48 pm PDT May 24, 2006
http://www.ktvu.com/news/9264350/detail.html


OAKLAND -- A horrifying and fascinating disease is affecting thousands of people in the Bay Area, along the Gulf Coast and in Florida. Though some doctors have claimed the malady is psychosomatic, other scientists are making headway unraveling the mystery of Morgellons Disease.

Former Oakland A's pitcher Billy Koch has it. And so do his wife and their three children. And though they can afford top medical care, doctors have no answers.

It started in Oakland four years ago. Koch saved 44 games and was the top reliever in the major leagues. His fastball wowed crowds. And then the strangeness began.

"He freaked out. He wanted to ignore it … I wanted to too. But when it comes to your kids, you gotta stop ignoring it," said Koch's wife Brandi.

She describes their symptoms: "It was the scariest thing I had ever realized in my entire life. There was matter and black specks coming out and off of my skin."

Within two years -- at age 29 -- Billy Koch was out of baseball, partly because of the uncontrollable muscle twitching that went on for months at a time and often kept up him up all night.

The disease is characterized by slow healing skin lesions that often extrude small, dark filaments, especially after bathing.

"That's when it would really just ooze -- literally ooze out of my skin," explained Brandi Koch.

The couple was at wit's end after numerous doctors not only provided little in the way of relief, but actually were skeptical about their health problems: "There's no reasonable explanation for it. I'm not seeing things. l'm watching it happen. We're pretty sane people…" lamented Billy.

Infectious disease specialist Dr. Neelam Uppal sympathized with the Kochs' plight: "They've seen several doctors, [and] everybody's told them they're crazy. It's in their head. They're delusional."

Dr. Uppal gave the Kochs and fifteen other patients a powerful anti-parasite medicine and antibiotics that helped temporarily. But the filaments come back.

Testing of the filaments brought no results, according to Dr. Uppal: "I've seen [it]; sent it to the lab. They can't identify it. They'll say 'They're nothing.'"

The reaction of medical professionals has made a difficult situation even harder for Brandi Koch: "It's not enough that you're suffering and hurting. It's 'You're an idiot!' and 'You're crazy!' on top of it. I'm really hurt and sad and scared."

The Kochs may be the most recognizable of more than 3,000 families nationwide reporting these same unexplained symptoms. There are curious clusters, in Florida, along the Gulf Coast and in the San Francisco Bay Area. That's where we begin our investigation into new clues to this medical mystery.

San Francisco physician Rafael Stricker took samples last spring from Bay Area sufferers. Patients report pustules and filaments that most doctors dismiss. Dermatologists claimed the filaments were all delusions, although none had studied them.

Oklahoma State University Professor Randy Wymore was the first scientist to conduct research on this disconcerting disease. He says it's the biggest mystery he's ever been involved in.

The UC Davis trained physiologist is leading a medical team at Oklahoma State University in Tulsa, researching what is now called Morgellons Disease.

With cooperation from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Wymore's team is studying Bay Area patients and others from around the country. His first finding disputes the frequent diagnosis of delusions.

"Pathologists and dermatologists and lab reports [said] that these were textile fibers appearing in the skin of the sufferers. Now that's just not true, to be perfectly blunt about it," says Prof. Wymore.

Wymore says his tests rule out not only textile fibers, but also worms, insects, animal material and even human skin and hair. He says the filaments are not an external contamination.

Instead, they are a substance that materializes somehow inside the body, apparent artifacts of something infectious. More results are expected soon. And Wymore says skin problems are not the worst symptoms.

He says a neurotoxin or microorganism may disturb muscle control and memory.

"The neurological effects are the much more severe, life altering and much more dangerous of the conditions," explains Prof. Wymore.

This month, Georgia began a statewide Morgellons registry. Prof. Wymore says he is about to begin a clinical trial and offers this to sufferers: "We know there's something going on here. You're not delusional."

Prof. Wymore has just released an open letter to doctors treating patients with Morgellons symptoms. It asks physicians to take it seriously, saying these patients are likely suffering from a still untreatable emerging disease.

The Language Of Morgellons - Think Beyond The Box

By Cliff Mickelson
cmicke1065@aol.com
6-28-6


"All things, once conceived within the womb of the mind of man, are in effect, fertilized potentialities. They exist from that moment on as a gestating reality." - CM

It is important for all those now entering the debate concerning "Morgellons, AKA the Fiber Disease" to understand that one of the more considerable inconveniences that we, as a group, find ourselves up against in the struggle to quantify this affliction is a paucity of appropriately descriptive and accurate linguistics with which to organize, compartmentalize and index it with.

Not unlike the phenomena that occurs when a primitive tribal society confronts and attempts to quantify its sudden and unanticipated encounter with a technologically advanced mechanized society, we now find ourselves cast head first into a foreign dimension where dwells the dragon of descriptive verbal quandary.

Here we cross over the frontier into a twilight world of future-shock. This is a realm where thousands of years of painstakingly assembled linguistic tools are beggared. In the collective Passover into this world of language "antimatter," ... more becomes less ... and antimony reigns supreme.

This is also a land where even the richest of human tongues suffer a collective interface "bankruptcy" and are effectively precluded from their basic reason d' etre. We find our most powerful social tool unable to coherently and effectively communicate the nature of that which our senses perceive. Such is the magnitude of the failure of language in this instance.

We discover, as a result, that we are disagreeably placed at a descriptive loss to correctly conceptualize what it is that we find before us since we have no completely accurate past definitions or terms to draw upon.

This dictum holds true for much of what is now presented before us in the guise of Morgellons.

And....

As a result of this unpleasant situation, (In much the same way as any technologically challenged culture would have to do) we find that we are forced to beg, borrow or steal inadequate terminology and modify it as best we can with conditional modifiers, unsatisfactory adjectives and bandage adverbs.

Hence, it is common to find the frequent use among researchers of the hyphenated word...'-form' When discussing or attempting to communicate, define, or quantify information concerning this affliction.

Any such hyphenated tendencies are immediate and preclusive testimony to linguistic inadequacy. They come to us complete with all attendant nuances and escape clauses.

Yet even these semantic exigencies of last resort are creative desperation's that tend to fall short more often than not.

At best, they lend themselves, (unfortunately) to monumental confusion.

It is time to invent a lexicon made of the same fabric as this condition.

That may mean that it is also time to seriously stretch the rubber band of accepted convention and to begin to think outside the box.

Therefore, lexical poverty's are the best that we will be able to marshal until a better understanding of the exact nature of what we are dealing with is obtained and appropriate terminology is then either coined or adapted to fit.

So....

As the reader may likely surmise at this point ... This Morgellons "organism" exhibits proclivities and behaviors that are...from beyond the pale and certainly outside the medical box.

Several telling and pertinent examples of the current descriptive insolvency we find ourselves afflicted with in relation to this disease can be found in none other than the very name we have assigned to it.

Morgellons, AKA: the Fiber Disease.

In fact, this disease is so alien to the modern tongue and so adumbrates the modern vocabulary that the closest possible moniker that could be found to tag it with was a 300 year old plague of questionable origin that no one now living had ever heard of before.

And...

Even that act of linguistic desperation falls short as no one really knows for sure exactly what it was that was described 300 years ago, nor do we know if it is, in fact, this disease that confronts us now.

We only know that it 'sounds' similar. Hence we are forced to commit a questionable and inadequate linguistic theft in order to communicate the fact that the 'gods must be crazy.'

Let's take a moment and quickly examine just one of those hijacked descriptive phrase: .... 'fibers"

Again, our language is beggared for true accuracy by the oddity of this disease as accumulating research is indicating more and more that the objects we term "fibers" bear no actual physical similarity whatsoever to the classic definition of "fibers" The aforementioned objects only 'look' like fibers, but they are NOT fibers.

Keep in mind that English is one of, if not THE richest descriptive languages on Earth.

Our native tongue has over a quarter million accepted words in its inventory. Yet, this most prolific of communicative art forms is struck down dumb and linguistically bankrupted by the misnomer of...."The Fiber disease that we call Morgellons," ... An anomaly which, due to the nature of this most uncertain of afflictions, is actually, in effect, neither.

-CliffMickelson

Morgellons - The Disease Doctors Refuse To Treat

By Janice Williamson
KHOU-TV Houston
6-27-6


Imagine being so sick you're unable to work, but can't find a doctor who will help you.

Mainstream medical professionals don't believe Morgellons is real.

KHOU discovered that is exactly what is happening to a growing number of people in Texas, Florida and California.

Morgellons disease is an illness first documented more than 300 years ago, yet it is still considered a mystery.

Cheryall Spiller moves slower than she once did around her Rosharon farm. The 59-year-old suffers from what she believes is a mystery disease.

"Small white worms that come out of my ears, you can feel them itching in there. You can get a Q-tip and dig them out," she explained.

Spiller is not alone.

"The sores come up and these fuzzy things come out," said Stephanie Bailey, Austin resident. "It's almost like spores or something like that."

Lesions and scars cover Stephanie Bailey's arms and legs.

Travis Wilson is a victim too.

"Feeling like bugs are crawling all over you. You can't sleep. It's freaky. So he'd go days without sleep," said Lisa Wilson, patient's mother.

According to nurse practitioner Ginger Savely, all three may have an emerging sickness called Morgellons disease.

"it just looks you know like somebody picked at something and it got a little infected," Savely said.

When magnified 60 times the sores take on a different look.

"So you focus a little more you can see the black fibers the white fibers," Savely said.

Savely admitted the idea of creatures living inside our bodies seems more like science fiction than science.

"I don't think a person can believe it until they see it with their own eyes," she said. "The problem is people aren't looking hard enough, most practitioners are not looking because they are not taking them seriously."

Mainstream medical professionals don't believe Morgellons is real.

"I think if we look at what is truly evidence-based medicine, what has been proven based on scientific fact we know we don't have a means to substantiate her observations," said Dr. Adelaide Hebert, U.T. Health Science Center Houston.

Dr. Adelaide Hebert said Morgellons exists only in the patient's mind.

"Many of these patients do have delusion of parasitosis," Dr. Hebert said. "It is actually not uncommon to have patients come in and describe the sensation that something is crawling on their skin."

11 News could not locate any Houston doctor who believes in or treats Morgellons. At Oklahoma State University research is underway on a volunteer basis.

Ginger Savely has documented 100 cases and treats her patients with oral and topical antibiotics.

"They can't get anybody to help them in the medical profession. It's just a nightmare, a living nightmare. I can't imagine any worse disease," she said.

Lisa Wilson's son became so distraught about his condition he took his own life two weeks ago.

"He would tell me he'd rather have cancer because then he'd know what he was up against," Lisa Wilson said.

"They're worried about the bird flu coming, you've got something here right now that's spreadable and it's being hush-hushed," Spiller said.

"They told me I was doing it to myself and that I was nuts," Bailey explained. "I stopped going to doctors because I was afraid they were going to lock me up."

The scars are more than skin deep.

http://rense.gsradio.net:8080/rense/http/M..._062206_hr2.mp3

http://rense.gsradio.net:8080/rense/http/M..._062206_hr3.mp3

- Jeff Rense interview with a sufferer and also more medical details on this and links with Chemtrails .. very good, detailed, important and disturbing interview with all the details of first hand personal experience.

Morgellons Fiber Study Summary

- Jenny Haverty, Clinical Microbiologist Scientist
http://www.cherokeechas.com/JHav-02.htm


Date: Monday, December 13, 2004 10:32 PM

Following are microscopic observations of specimens of unknown fibers
taken from four individuals suffering from a condition known as
Morgellons disease.

The participants are:

(full names indicate participants who have granted full permission to publish)

Julie Karnes - who lives in San Francisco, California
Cindy G. Casey, RN - an intensive care nurse living in Sausalito, California
Murphy - an artist & musician living in Oakland, California
Wendy E. Tripp - a veterinary technician living in San Jose, California

All of these cities are in the San Francisco Bay Area in Northern California.

The descriptions are using a light microscope (Nikon LABOPHOT-2), 400x
lens, and a Leitz fluorescent microscope (LABORLUX D), using an ultraviolet light
source with a 330 to 380 um excitation filter and a 420 um barrier filter.

The fibers were not observed to contain septa.
___________________________________________________________________
Julie, collected fibers from her calves in March, 2004.
I teased the fibers, and mounted them on a glass slide in sterile
saline (PSS). Using the 400x lens (light microscope) the following were
observed:

Red fibers 48.64 microns wide
Clear fibers 23.04 microns wide
Black fibers 28.16 microns wide
Clear slender fibers with prong like structures 7.68 microns wide
Red to red & black fibers with an internal structure that resembled
ladder-like rungs, 17.92 microns wide

Her sample also included hair, which measured from 51.2 to 74.24
microns wide. Looking at her sample of collected fibers before teasing them apart,
some appeared to have a thick black speck in the center of the long strands of fibers.

I mounted the speck directly on a glass slide (I had to cut the long fibers to separate

the speck from the "mass" of fibers), added saline and a coverslip, and under 400x

it was comprised only of extremely tangled black fibers.

I then examined the sample described above using the fluorescent
microscope (unstained in saline). The majority of the fibers were
extremely bright aqua autofluorescent. The black and red fibers did
not autofluoresce.

I then made a preparation of fibers in 20% KOH and Calcofluor stain (a
stain used to observe fungi...yeast and hyphal elements of fungal organisms
fluoresce bright apple green using a fluorescent microscope in the ultraviolet range).
The fibers did not pick up the Calcofluor stain...they were the same
bright aqua autofluorescent color as observed in saline, along with the
black and red fibers as observed above. I also observed some hair in
this preparation, which did not fluoresce.
____________________________________________________________________

Cindy and her husband came to my hospital lab on August 12, 2004 and I
collected a very small sample from a skin lesion on her arm. I
cultured the material from the lesion using fungal culture media
(Sabouroud dextrose agar, Mycosel agar, and BHI agar with blood and
antibiotics), incubated at 30 degrees Celsius for four weeks. The
result was negative for fungal growth, with a light amount of skin
bacteria observed. There was not enough specimen for microscopic
examination.

Cindy brought additional skin lesion samples for a repeat fungal
culture and microscopic examination on August 31, 2004. I cultured one sample using

fungal culture media. The culture was also negative for fungal growth at four weeks.

The same sample obtained on 8/31/04 was observed following teasing in
saline as described above using the light microscope to have:

Clear fibers 12.8 microns to 20.48 microns wide
Blue fibers 15.36 microns wide

Using the fluorescent microscope, the fibers showed all bright aqua
autofluorescent fibers with rare black non-fluorescent fibers observed.

Cindy also gave me a sample that had been collected on August 30, 2004
for microscopic observation. Using the light microscope I observed:

red fibers 15.36 to 17.92 microns wide
blue fibers 30.72 microns wide
clear tubular fibers 7.68 microns wide
clear ribbon-like fibers 15.36 microns wide
black fibers 12.8 microns wide

In addition, I found rare spore-like structures that were football
shaped, 12.8 microns long, some of which had a septate-like division across the center.
Also found were very rare structures slightly resembling the asymmetrical spores of
Alternaria species (a fungus)...these were 48.64 microns long
(Alternaria spores are 7 to 10 microns wide and 23-34 microns long).
These structures were both amber colored.
I also observed needle-like structures resembling crystals in this sample.
________________________________________________________________________

Murphy sent me prepared microscopic slides of fibers from several skin
lesions. Using the light microscope observed were in summary:

blue fibers 23.04 microns wide (some of which were ribbon-like)
red fibers 12.8 microns wide
black fibers 23.04 to 30.72 microns wide
clear fibers 15.36 microns wide
large clear fibers 33.28 microns wide

Using the fluorescent microscope, each sample autofluoresced bright
aqua blue, with darker fibers non-fluorescing.
_______________________________________________________________________

Wendy sent two samples. The first sample, fibers from her torso, were
collected on September 29, 2004. Using the light microscope, these showed:

black ribbon-like fibers, 25.7 microns wide
clear tubular fibers 12.8 microns wide
blue fibers 15.36 microns wide
red ribbon-like fibers 12.8 to 25.6 microns wide
brown fibers with ladder-like rungs 12.8 microns wide
brown fibers with prong-like structures along the sides 3.84 to 10.24
microns wide

The above sample had a predominance of the black fibers described above.


A second sample (also from torso) collected on October 7, 2004 showed
the same types of fibers as described above with the addition of:

brown fibers with ladder-like rungs 33.28 microns wide

Using the fluorescent microscope, observed were bright aqua
autofluorescent fibers, with black and red non-fluorescing fibers.
______________________________________________________________________

In summary:

There were many similarities in fibers from all four individuals, both
in size and color. All samples showed bright aqua autofluorescence using the fluorescent
microscope, with red and black non fluorescent fibers.

The fibers collected from these four individuals from different
counties of the San Francisco Bay Area are so similar to each other
that the causative agent may be epidemiologically the same.

Respectively submitted,

Jenny Haverty
Clinical Microbiologist Scientist
Marin General Hospital
Greenbrae, California

Ever Hopeful's Delusions

http://www.dpref.com/index.html


I came down with Delusions of Parasitosis in 2001. This bizarre syndrome is also called Delusional Parasitosis, Delusionary Parasitosis, Neurocutaneous Syndrome, Monosymptomatic Hypochondriasis, or even DOP or DP for short. Although dermatologists think they know everything they need to know about this condition, and can usually diagnose it in minutes, they still do not know what causes it. (For more information on DOP and its history in medicine and science, click here: A Brief Introduction to the Concept & Science of DOP.)

Oddly enough, my delusions, although mostly microscopic, are completely capable of being photographed. Using an inexpensive digital microscope made by Intel and marketed for schoolchildren, I have made many pictures and videos of my delusions. This website offers a few, selected for being the most representative or illustrative. In fact, the border on this and the other text pages is made from an image of a starfish delusion, shrunk and cropped. With one exception, the photos on the photo pages have not been "doctored" in anyway, except for cropping and, in a couple of cases, resizing to fit the page. The exception is the first image of the sandal thing, which was pasted together from two pictures, only because the thing was too large to fit in one photo. None of the other images has been touched up, airbrushed, had anything added or removed, or changed in any way. To see what some of my delusions look like, click on one of the links below.

I began studying and photographing my delusions on my own to try to identify their source, so that I could get well. I thought that, with the help of a microscope, I would be able to see what was causing my delusions, look it up in a book or online, and then figure out how to get rid of it. Unfortunately, it turned out to be far more difficult than I ever suspected.

These delusions, although reasonably easy to locate and photograph once I had some experience with them, are not described in any book or article. I have looked through pages of images on the web of animal and human parasites, including protozoa, helminths, and arthropods, without finding them. Entomologists, including a vector parasitologist, have been unable to identify the organism in the video, although they have suggested it appears most like a flagellate protozoa. Parasitologists have told me they have not seen anything like my sandal thing in their lives. I am not a scientist, and after four years of research, I remain ignorant of the identity of what I have seen with my scope. I have had to conclude that I am looking at a parasite still unknown to the scientific community.

I now believe it will take highly trained and experienced scientists to identify my delusions. I have created this website partly in the hope of catching the eye of some parasitologist or protozoologist or microbiologist or other such specialist who might be able to help identify some of my delusions. If one of you is reading this and can offer any suggestions or just plain interest, please email me at identify at dpref dot com. I am in contact with many of those who are currently studying the condition and will be thrilled to hear from any others who might like to contribute to the advancement of knowledge on this condition, even if it is just to offer one small idea or clue to follow.

I have also created this website to honor, support and validate the thousands of others who also suffer from this condition. If you would like to share your story, send me an email. I answer all legitimate emails, although it does sometimes take me awhile. So many people suffer from this condition that I sometimes get overwhelmed with emails. So I ask your patience in advance.

There are some organizations and other websites that offer support and assistance. For a list, click here: Additional Resources. If you know of others, please drop me a line with a link and a description, and I will add it to my list.

For general mail, notes, inquiries, etc., please email me at EH at dpref dot com.

Thanks to all.

Pictures

More new jeff rense interviews ... more indepth this time, 3 hours interview on the whole subject with sufferers :

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Morgellons - This Is No Naturally-Evolving Pathogen!

From L
7-3-6


Hi Cliff -

Thank you for the article on Morgellons (by Cliff Mickelson).

I find it hard to believe that the so called experts are still in denial about this disease (that is because it is way over their heads to begin with).....

Delusion does not create painful sores all over ones body that can take over one year to heal.....along with the other horrific symptoms this disease is VERY REAL and is a silent epidemic.....how dare they expose humans to these man made plant organisms for cleaning up the environment from beaches to lakes to wastewater treatment plants these organisms are everywhere and ARE INFECTING THE HUMANS as we are the perfect host for such pathogens - BELIEVE ME we have lived this science experiment gone bad for 12 years now!!!


From the research so far on this disease the scientists that are examining the lesions and the fibers extracted from these lesions that it is a substance that further deepens the mystery because analysis suggest the fibers might be made of cellulose, a molecule generally found in plants stated by the California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco. Or another expert stating that Morgellons infected now have a plant gene now where did that come from!!!

My husband, back in 1993/1994, worked as a mechanical technician for a chemical plant that started an experimental program for their wastewater treatment plant adding plant organisms into their wastewater treatment facility. He assisted with the installation of the startup equipment and overlooked the ongoing maintenance of this equipment. There were times he would be working on this equipment in nothing more than rubber boots and a dust mask. This plant organism was not supposed in infect humans.

Both of us have lost our ability to support ourselves it has been proven in families already which shows that close contact is infectious but they don?t even know if this will infect on casual contact or not.

We have been robbed of friends and family visiting our home. I would never wish this on anyone and we will no longer allow guests in our home. I firmly believe we have given this to our dogs as well and would say this disease is very infectious for families. In fact both mothers that have been to visit our home the past 3 years or so now are showing symptoms of this disease themselves......I am MAD AS H......really what is happening here!!!

We as Morgellons infected could never start another close contact relationship unless their partners what to be infected with this horrific disease until they find a way to stop this silent epidemic happening here.

Right now anyone that has been suffering from this disease has a letter from Oklahoma State University, Randy S. Wymore, Ph.D (attached) for Morgellons suffers to bring with them to their doctor so the doctors treating us will be more open to what is happening here. You can find further information regarding this disease at Morgellons.org.
I would like to list some of the symptoms that Morgellons infected suffer with

* Painful sores that take over a year to heal sometimes 2 years to heal

* During breakouts extreme itching and begin bug bite like in nature but coming from under your skin not on top

* Pain in sores that feel like infected slivers that hurt so bad you have to try and rip it out residing in severe pain doing that

* Marks all over my skin on face, neck, arms, legs over 10 years with not one time in 10 years where I didn't have sores on my body

* Skin crawling a feeling of parasites running on your body and into your eyes

* Weakening eyesight and a continual sand/grit like feeling that you can't get out

* IBS and weight loss

* Painful joints and weakness in strength

* Shin muscle cramping

* Muscle twitching at rest

* Head lesion/channels appear on scalp from nowhere with sharp burning pain lasting several days then gone like they never existed leaving residual pain

* Terrible nights sweats (waking up soaked, the sheets, night shirt, pillow everything)

* While showering during severe breakouts you can pull strange things (gritty like) off your body that seemed attached to what I thought was my hair but I don?t know

* Unusual pains in body over last 10 years such as:

- Severe pain in back where doctor thought I should break out in shingles any day but didn't

- Severe pain in face but neither dentist nor doctor could find reason

* Very low tolerance to physical activity small tasks can produce excessive sweating and tire easily

* A prickle like sensation on skin

* Healthy teeth are deteriorating both hsand I

* Build up of skin sensitivities one bug bite of any kind can send my body in overload

* Severe intolerance to alcohol both Steve and I are violently ill after drinking

* Feeling of overwhelming at times and light headedness

* Easily stressed at times, NO WONDER

* Brain Fog?.trouble getting words out a delay in speech thoughts like a stuttering but no

* Compromised immune system

* During severe outbreaks can sit and pick granular like items from skin

* Drastic body temperature fluctuations?..heat radiating from head, skin sweating but cool in the mouth


There are other symptoms I am sure we have encountered but after 10 years you forget what normal feels like.

Here is a sample of the health issues my husband and I have been through the last 10 years:

He and I both treated for similar severe back pain and treated by cortisone injection into our backs by a pain management specialist within one year.

Painful sores that have continued for 10 years for me and remised for him until recently. We feel that once he was diagnosed with RA the Prednisone (5 years now on Prednisone) and Methyltrexate is helping keep his sores at bay but has recently seen more activity again lately.

He had terrible night sweats before the RA diagnosis and now I am have terrible night sweats and the last 6 months swollen joints (cannot wear my wedding rings) and joint pain. In fact today was tested for RA I await the results.

Both he and I have deteriorating teeth much faster rate than usual

Both have the sand/grit like feeling in our eyes and eyesight problems

Both tire easily and have the drastic body temperature fluctuations.

Delayed speech pattern I more than he, but I see it in both of us.

Both have weight loss issues Him - 40 pounds in 3 years Me - 15 pounds in last year even though we eat healthy meals everyday

Steve has had terrible unusual body rashes and I have had the unusual unexplained pains in my body?.and a negative test result to normal testing

My husband, at 39 years old, was stricken with a form of RA the specialists cannot figure out. He has no history of RA in his family. His non-response to traditional treatments even qualify for PROSORBA treatments and blood dialysis (once a week for 12 weeks)

He had that treatment twice and was considered disabled.

My husband now has thinning skin and I have thinning skin both having dryness issues all the time?.can never relieve the dryness in our hands and skin.

He has swallowing troubles with almost every meal he eats.

He has had vascular troubles ever since this started. Within four days on vacation he came home with his leg so swollen baffled the vascular specialists with no conclusion why this happened after several test completed.

Recently my husband had a vessel in his ankle explode and bleed. Thank God a fellow employee arrived, (as they were doing a middle of the night emergency call for a client) and found him at the shop in such condition and got him to the emergency room.

No explanation of why this happened from the hospital medical staff.

I cannot and will not wear anything but long sleeved shirts out in public I cannot wear summer clothes?I would rather die of heat than take a long sleeve shirt off?this is misery in itself.

I believe Morgellons infected patients should not give blood. But because the CDC is failing us how many more will be infected before they stop this madness.

Regards,

L

Morgellon's Is Biowarfare

7-5-6


This mysterious disease or affliction has affected far too many individuals for us not to have a handle on it. There have been other diseases that have had a similar course. AIDS, SARS, Lyme Disease, and the Bird Flu come to mind as examples of new phenomena within this generation. They all have the earmarks of biological warfare agents.

Before we can make any beneficial changes in the course of this insidious affliction we must first identify it for what it is. If we do not take this first step we are subjecting ourselves to further research and experimentation as the civilian populace acts the part of the guinea pig.

I did not sign a consent form for experimentation and I doubt that any of the 3,000 plus individuals afflicted with Morgellon's signed a consent to be subjects for experimentation.

There may be a logical reason for our advanced high-tech medical system to drag its feet in finding a beneficial treatment for this new disease. First, they need to identify the long term course of the Morgellon's affliction. How long does this process take before the medical system intervenes?

Secondly, the pharmaceutical industry must have enough time to produce a new expensive drug which will produce millions of dollars before they come to our rescue.

We must take a deeper look, beyond the affliction itself, before we will find the answers - answers for which we are made to beg.

My recommendation is to start trying alternative treatments on our own. We will be in a horrible state if we sit back and wait for the system to finish its experimentation and research on us. There are alternatives we can use that do no harm and are cost-effective.

Remember what happened to SARS? Outside our country they found that Quercetin, a bioflavonoid that sustains a balanced immune response, was effective in alleviating the high morbidity and mortality. After this pronouncement, we no longer heard about the dreaded SARS.


Robbi Borjeson, MD
askdrfeather@yahoo.com

Morgellons Watch... Disinfo, Drugs & Destiny!

by Cliff Mickelson
CMicke1065@aol.com
7-6-6


Hi Jeff -

It is well known that, in a desperate effort to combat the debilitating effects of Morgellons, many sufferers, (Not unlike a great number of other Americans) have turned to a variety of drugs in order to continue to function on a day to day basis. In many cases this is a necessity if the victim wishes to maintain the vitality required to support themselves in the workaday world...

Most of these drugs, (such as Ritilan, Prozac, etc.) are prescribed by doctors.

A few are not...(Uppers, such as street methamphetamine)

Metabolism boosting drugs are a two-edged sword when applied in this venue. It is interesting to note that, besides often serving to artificially suppress the immune system, the class of amphetamines, as well as many other legal prescription drugs, also jack up the metabolism.

And...Here's the irony of it all... This situation becomes a win/win scenario for the Morgellons pathogen.

The Morgellons entity thrives by siphoning the energy of its host. The more the host metabolism is jacked, the more the creature is enabled to proliferate!

It matters not a whit to the organism whether the energy it is siphoning comes from artificial, inflationary sources or organic ones. In point of fact, the thing appears to be some sort of very efficient energy vampire.

The end result is the further and complete debilitation of the host.

Sadly, the metabolism "boost" issue remains one of the least recognized keys to the Morgellons highway!

It is true that all of the aforementioned class of drugs, as well as a variety of others, appear to work as a quick fix for the brain fog and chronic fatigue of Morgellons.

But grounds now exist to suspect that when dealing with the fiber disease, drugs may be, (In the end) comparable to putting water on a grease fire. Folks just haven't realized that yet.

Should modern drugs fail us in the war against this new and ominous plague, then could it be that at long last, a technology such as that developed by Royal Rife in the 1920s will be called upon to shatter the glass onion that is the mystery of Morgellons?

One other related note to consider:

When this affliction finally does force itself into the mainstream consciousness, (Which it soon will) we can expect a concerted and determined effort to shoe-horn it into a pre-existing and already defined parameter. Doing so will enable the Mainstream to quantify it without having to be forced to peek at the scary monsters outside the box. (See "Inside The Box" below.)

This Hob's labor will require disenfranchising all prior work on the subject, redefining the pathogenic nature of the affliction as charted to date, and denigrating and minimizing those who have participated in any and all such work.

The PTB effort to reinvent Morgellons is already under way in its embryonic stages.

Lyme diagnosis and even DOP diagnosis are semi- conscious, disjointed, and/or crude subconscious examples of this matrix as it begins to form. The sudden spate of hunter-killer web sites and contemptable personal disinfo attacks are another harbinger of powerful forces with something to hide.

Due to the potentially revolutionary implications of this affliction we can expect such efforts to become more shrill, cunning, and vicious as the affliction gains a grudging, wider, recognition.

Mainstream denial is more than just a river in Africa. Its currents run swift and deep. Once forced to accept the existence of Morgellons, expect an all out attempt by the PTB at exclusion, disenfranchisement and a born again neo-exclusivity.

In other words they will attempt to hijack, own, and redefine, not only the disease, but the social perception of its "nature and morphology."

This usurpation requires casting the messengers into the proverbial Well. In so doing, it becomes possible to subtly force the disease to fit within non-threatening and acceptable parameters that have been preconceived or prepared for it. It will have been sanitized and defanged.

Of course such undertakings are naturally a colorized and warped bastardization of the true reality of the affliction but...as we both know, the human perception of reality is a subjective beast and will generally trot down the path where those who sit in the saddle, direct it to go.

We must be prepared to blunt this coming attack on the nature of the reality of this affliction or we will find ourselves hard up on a rock in the rapids of Mainstream de' Nile!

Those who do not define and empower their own destiny as it pertains to this issue will soon find it defined and scripted for them.

We must not allow the reality that is the true nature of this affliction to be diagnosed for us. We fail in this task at our peril and at the cost of our health and lives.


-CliffMickelson

INSIDE THE BOX -

Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM IV) http://allpsych.com/disorders/dsm.html and more specifically, regarding "tactile, feeling sensations on your skin that aren't really there, such as the feeling of bugs crawling on you": Psychotic Disorders at ALLPSYCH Online - Delusional/Psychotic http://allpsych.com/disorders/psychotic/index.html )

IF THERE IS NO INSURANCE CODE into which the medical practitioner can "slot" a condition..it does not exist. .It appears that if it isn't in the insurance "codes" currently, it does not exist except as a Dilusional Psyciatric Disorder. The DSMIV gives medical practitioners all the insurance codes for "diagnosis" of a psyciatric disorder .

Morgellons - The Crime? Treason Against The Species

By Cliff Mickelson
7-7-6


We all knew it would come.... It was only a matter of time.

It took root among us many long decades ago. It feigned to grow slowly. At first it only whispered: "FEED ME", in a low-key and righteous manner. "FEED ME."

Just a few prisoners here, a few black men there, just an unsuspecting young soldier or two.

They were victims, never missed.

So...

"FEED ME", it said, but now it no longer was whispering...

Still, no one really noticed.

Oh, sure, there were a few malcontents and crackpots who sat up and listened.

"Say, Did you hear that"? They asked America.

No one replied, and so, those who listened... were easily marginalized and quickly silenced.

Now, the criminals grew bolder.

"FEED ME" was soon audible throughout the land.

During the decades of the last half of the twentieth century, what was once criminal caution turned increasingly into criminal arrogance.

FEED ME, FEED ME!.....More and more an endemic and chronic Government secrecy paved the road to the overthrow of the Republic.

Like an acid, it disolved the bonds of human dignity and facilitated the repudiation of the value of the individual as a vital integer of a free nation.

And... through it all, in the background the roar grew stronger....

FEED ME, FEED ME, FEED ME!

Yet still America slept.

Now, the criminals no longer needed to fear. Criminal arrogance was soon replaced with criminal contempt!

Contempt for you. Contempt for me. Contempt!

Criminal contempt.

FEED ME, FEED ME, FEED ME!

So, at long last, here we are. Our journey nears its end...We are all infected. You may not realize your disease yet.

But you are infected. I am infected.

There may only be one sad small difference between you and I.... I know my disease.... I realize I am infected.

My control over my own fate, My sacred right to exercise my ability to affect my own destiny; those things the criminals stole first.

Now, with each new day, I look anew upon the mark of this bondage to which the contempt of criminals has delivered me.

And you? You who have yet to see?

You have also been sold. Now the sound of the jackal is heard everywhere in the land.

FEED ME, FEED ME, FEED ME!

I do not pretend to know what fate my new master holds in store for me. Of course it is easy to imagine death in all its most painful and terrible forms. Yet, why is it so difficult to only believe that this is a benign infection? Perhaps a mistake? Tomorrow I will wake and shake off this nightmare?

I find myself grasping at hope with a ferocity that equals that which now grips me, as it also grips you.

Criminals have stolen among us like assassins at the stroke of midnight. It is a cold, merciless hand that touches everyone. The sound of it befouls every thing.

FEED ME!

Alas, my friends, you do not yet even realize that the criminal hand flies each day above all you have ever loved.

Even now, it grips your children as they play in the school yard. It throttles your retired parents as they unsuspectingly set out to see an America that is no more. It comes for you because it must.

It has an insatiable need:

FEED ME, FEED ME, FEED ME!

And so it is that an unnatural appetite devours an America where once, some decades ago, just a few official criminals were allowed to become criminally arrogant, testing their poisons on just a few other lesser criminals.

Until at long last, like thieves in the night, they finally came for us all.

Such treason! Our own flesh and blood!

Our own fellow citizens! And now our own kith and kin rob us of that which is the most precious of God's gifts:

Our future.

And the cock crowed thrice!

FEED ME, FEED ME, FEED ME!

In closing, dear reader, if there is indeed a hell, then in the darkest corner of fiery torment, may those who have brought this fabric of darkness forth upon our world, receive their just wages.

We must continue to believe that someday there will come a champion.

That we will someday behold our own Pale Rider.

That there will rise up an avenging wraith armed with a sword of justice and it will be wielded against the criminal wrongs done to unsuspecting men and women.

Our faith must give life to that yet unknown avenger for the loss of our innocent little children. Those babes, who even now, are fain to taste the sorrowful sweet joy of life.

For this, we will find the strength to persevere. We will find the will to live.

...And even if it is only for the venal satisfaction of being there on the day when this horrid spawn, this creation of evil, has been rooted out and damned to the blackest of eternity's fires.

And........Even if only it is to hear the words:

WE INDICT THEE, WE INDICT THEE, and....WE CONDEMN THEE.

BUT FEED THEE, ...WE WILL NOT!

For on that day, and only then, will we, as a species,...

Rest In Peace.

- CliffMickelson

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SEE BELOW:

Extracted from Nexus Magazine, Volume 8, Number 5 (August-September 2001)

I - PATHOGENIC MYCOPLASMA

A Common Disease Agent Weaponised
There are 200 species of Mycoplasma. Most are innocuous and do no harm; only four or five are pathogenic. Mycoplasma fermentans (incognitus strain) probably comes from the nucleus of the Brucella bacterium. This disease agent is not a bacterium and not a virus; it is a mutated form of the Brucella bacterium, combined with a visna virus, from which the mycoplasma is extracted.

The pathogenic Mycoplasma used to be very innocuous, but biological warfare research conducted between 1942 and the present time has resulted in the creation of more deadly and infectious forms of Mycoplasma. Researchers extracted this mycoplasma from the Brucella bacterium and actually reduced the disease to a crystalline form. They "weaponised" it and tested it on an unsuspecting public in North America.
Dr Maurice Hilleman, chief virologist for the pharmaceutical company Merck Sharp & Dohme, stated that this disease agent is now carried by everybody in North America and possibly most people throughout the world.

(end snip)

http://educate-yourself.org/cn/mycoplasmal...exussep01.shtml

A Homotonic Treatment for Morgellons?

http://educate-yourself.org/lte/homotonict...ns01jul06.shtml
July 1, 2006

Subject: My thoughts on Morgellons and treatment
From: karen110@gmail.com
Date: Sat, July 1, 2006
To: Editor <E-mail>

Hi Ken,

I think you're right on target about "resonant frequency." Homeopathy uses disease agents as medicines, which resonate on a similar frequency, so to speak, as the disease entity itself. But the remedies are in highly diluted form and rendered purely energetic, so there is no toxicity.

Technically speaking this is not homeopathy but homotonic treatment, although they both use the law of similars in this way.

Such a remedy could easily be made out of this parasite itself, to be used as a treatment. Anyone can do this using water as the dilutent, or if the substance isn't water soluble, then it is ground up with lactose powder until a substance is formed which is water soluble.

I posted the instructions for making such a remedy out of any disease agent or poisonous substance, here:

http://www.psywarriormatrix.com/about2642.html

I hope this info is useful.

Best,
Karen

*****

Added Information (introducing Heilkunst)

Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2006
From: Karen <karen110@gmail.com>
To: Editor <E-mail>
Subject: Re: My thoughts on Morgellons and treatment

Hi Ken,

It was my pleasure to provide a little insight into what I referred to as homotonic treatment, although now that it's been posted, maybe a bit more background would be in order.

I'm a current student of a radically new and complete medical system, grounded in Dr. Samuel Hahnemann's 200-year old "blueprint" for cure, which is effective for modern illnesses of all kinds. It's called Heilkunst, and includes both homeopathic and homotonic treatment but in a much larger framework than homeopathy has ever before been understood. It's not just another method to add to the multitude of methods we already have, but a framework for understanding how and when to apply any method in the most effective way.

Dr. Hahnemann is one representative of the "Dynamic" stream of thought which also includes the work of Wilhelm Reich and functional orgonomy. But Hahnemann's work has been largely untapped even by modern classical homeopaths, due to poor translations and the challenges involved in deeply penetrating the genius of his work.

Modern Heilkunst is based on recent new translations of Hahnemann's original work, and brought into practical form by Rudi Verspoor and Patty Smith at the Hahnemann Center for Heilkunst in Ottawa.

The new translations by German scholar Steven Decker have brought out some stunning new insights into the nature of disease and the method of real cure. It's turned everything I knew about natural medicine upside down, partly in light of the fact that I literally turned my own life-threatening illness around with this treatment.

I say "partly" not because my success has been less than dramatic, but because the real value of a medical system is in the truth of the principles it invokes, not the anecdotal success stories. When we hear a story of the success of a certain method, if we don't know that a truly curative principle of nature has been applied, we can't really know whether the person's symptoms have simply been palliated (in which case the disease could have actually been suppressed and driven deeper into the system), or whether the disease entity has actually been eradicated.

The Heilkunst system understands that the human life force is dynamic (energetic) in nature, and that most modern people have diseases which are dynamic impingements on the life force. These diseases are not the arbitrary allopathic disease labels but disease as defined according to its real dynamic nature.

For example, multiple sclerosis is not a disease but a condition including certain characteristic symptoms. The real underlying diseases which gave rise to that condition, which may be different for each person who manifests this condition, need to be clearly diagnosed as to the cause of each disease. Then curative remedies can be given on the basis of similar resonance ("like cures like.")

Heilkunst is truly causative medicine, an elegant system for addressing the diseases that give rise to any and all conditions. It's concerned with the application of the curative principles of nature with remedies proven to be curative, and then allowing the natural healing power of the body to respond in order to complete the total remediation.

This involves the functional polarity of both "curing" and "healing," which correspond to two complementary sides of the dynamic human life force. Previously, this "life force" was vaguely understood as something to be supported, but disease is actually a specific dynamic impingement which needs to be destroyed. Just like with a pregnancy, you can't remove it by simply strengthening the person! Bolstering the life force, which is the
aim of most of natural medicine, is addressing only one side of the life force - an important part of treatment but only really half the task at hand.

So the reason that most alternative medicine methods don't reach to the roots of disease is because they're only addressing one side of that polarity, the healing side, and they're missing the key - invoking the curing side of the life force.

A few years back, Don Croft in one of his posts here talked about his trip to see "Dr. Rudi" Verspoor at the Hahnemann Center in Ottawa. He mentioned being struck by the understanding that disease is an entity to be destroyed, in rather war-like fashion. But it needs to be done systematically and according to the natural path that the life force is taking.

Often microbes are secondary to the more primary disease entities, and simply killing the messenger doesn't work deeply enough. We need a clear map of the territory to be covered in each particular case, which can take twists and turns. What we need now is to follow up on the understanding that disease is an entity to be destroyed, but we need a clear map for that process.

Heilkunst's actual rate of success is staggeringly high.. and after 30 years of struggling with the whole gamut of natural medicine approaches, I never came across any other method that could rightly claim such a high success rate for real cure. Mostly the word "cure" is taboo even in the world of alternative medicine, because its real meaning has been misunderstood and relegated to the realm of quackery. But if we apply what we know about disinfo tactics, we can see how we've bought into another lie about the limitations of medicine.

Then of course we need to be able to know when we've actually cured vs. when we've simply removed some symptoms temporarily without pulling up the real roots of disease. Heilkunst addresses these issues in a precise and systematic way, as it's based on principles of natural law that can be clearly known.

It finally answers the question: Why when we have all these excellent alternative healing methods are we still applying what amounts to a hit-or-miss approach? When we're faced with a chronic health problem, we really have been settling for a very vague understanding of what we're dealing with. We haven't expected to have real knowledge of the principles needed to invoke in order to effect a real cure. I think it's time to raise
our expectations!

Heilkunst is practiced at the international Hahnemann Center for Heilkunst, based in Ottawa, Canada, although patients anywhere can be treated by phone consults and have the remedies sent by mail. There are also many Heilkunst practitioners in other areas, and the listings are on their website,
http://www.homeopathy.com/clinic

For more articles on Heilkunst, http://www.heilkunst.com

I'm not a Heilkunst practitioner but offer email consulting services to help people learn how to organize a self-help program for themselves, grounded in the principles of Heilkunst.
http://www.guideforselfhealing.com

Aside from my services, I'm happy to informally address any questions that people may have about any aspect of Heilkunst. I'm keenly interested in promoting awareness of this medical system, and anyone interested can contact the HCH directly too.

Best,
Karen

Guide for Self-Healing
http://www.guideforselfhealing.com
guideforselfhealing@gmail.com

Morgellons And The Mystery Of Mind Control

By: Cliff Mickelson
7-11-6


As time passes, the magnitude of the ongoing catastrophic affliction known as "Morgellons disease", Elliot's disease, (Or just simply Skin 'Fibers') continues to geometrically explode across North America, as well as around the world.

Illustrative, as a result of that terrifying growth, is evidence that (IMO) this disease is no accident of nature. In truth, there may well be nothing "natural" or "accidental" about it at all.

I believe continued research into the mechanics and nature of this horrid affliction will eventually find this creature employs at least five (and possibly 7 or more) different manifestations (appearances) which it uses to its advantage, as well as enabling several different growth or evolutionary functions during its tenure within the human body.

The organism reveals itself thus, being programmed, as it appears to be, with a specific, a purposeful and a multilevel agenda to accomplish.

I believe it will be proven that this creature follows a directive that goes far beyond the parameters of a biologically based parasitic relationship between mutually hostile organisms.

Its physical effects (*see link at bottom of page) are a deliberate and necessary portion of its encapsulated directive. But there may be more...it appears also to be programmed to seek out a portal or mental patch bay, if you will, within its host, and then to serve in a bookmark role as a passive, pre-instructed selective activator of certain predisposed and targeted personality characteristics and/or thought process constructs that lay within the dominion of the human mind.

Thus, this entity, by gaining access to the human or apparently ANY animal body, is able to deliver to that target, a command packet of bio-codes which affects a highly successful form of untraceable activation, direction and control over that target's selection of assigned behavioral priorities and preferences.

These preferences outwardly appear, (to others) as being the victim's overt choices , but in reality, they are simply an override of the victim's own control hardware and serve as an activation protocol for already latent or suppressed counterproductive personality traits.

This construct may be easier to grasp if one recalls that it is a proven fact that these kind of "mindsnatchers" or behavioral modifiers already exist in the natural parasitic world.

In particular, I am reminded of a parasite that infects mice and then alters their brain chemistry so that they seek the company of cats. The mice are then killed and devoured by the cats. This is accomplished so the parasite may finish its life cycle in the intestines of the cat. The mouse, in effect, commits mmits suicide to further the agenda of the parasite.

So, with this example in mind, rest assured that the Morgellons organism appears to possess a similar, modular function that can interject itself into some of the more important and poorly understood aspects of the human thought processes.

These include the domains of creative abstraction, personality, derivative social behavior, and most importantly, self-perception and the definition of one's personal reality.

All this may be achieved by working a delivery transfer to the victim, from a pre-programed and passively coded organic base of information that is integral to the unit (organism) itself. This packet of information is indistinguishable from, and indeed may well be, the same base of code upon which the unit itself is assembled.

This "creature" then, is a form and signpost of a foreign mastery.

And...

If there is a master, then it follows that there must also be a slave.

This is therefore a testament to the power of some kind of external life or form to effect, by its subterfuge upon the denizens of this earth, a chain of bondage the likes of which are still only pipe dreams in the cutting edge laboratories of even the most visionary mad scientists or only in the fantasies of the most maniacal of power hungry and demented political monsters.

So, it is germane to ask: Is this the manner in which some unseen evil intends to overcome the abstract, soaring, incarnations of the human "mind"?!

Are the mice about to volunteer to feed the cat?

As always, there is much more here that ever meets the eye.

Again, I believe it will be shown that none of this is an accident. The old folk saying: "The Devil is in the smallest of details" is very true...

This time, however, the devil may well BE the smallest of details.

- CliffMickelson

***

(*) Morgellons does more than just rewire the way a victim's mind works. [For a sobering description of the "physical effects" of Morgellons ... Follow link at bottom of page to a long but excellent article written in 2003 by Cathy McDonald]

http://www.curezone.com/forums/mp.asp?f=315&i=473

More pictures

http://www.funtigo.com/AnneDill?g=1029121&cr=1

The Plague

Bizarre fibers. Black sweat. Bugs under the skin. Welcome to the controversial world of Morgellons disease.

By Jesse Hyde
Article Published Jul 20, 2006
http://www.dallasobserver.com/Issues/2006-...ws/feature.html


It's well past midnight in Leander, Texas, and as usual, Travis Wilson can't sleep. His skin is itching. It's always itching. He tries not to think about it, but it's been itching for more than a year, and he cannot make it stop. It's driving him crazy.

He paces the halls, careful not to wake his mother, who is sleeping downstairs. It's a big house--3,000 square feet--but sometimes she hears him stirring, playing his guitar, watching TV or writing in his online journal. Anything to keep his mind off the "nonstop itching/biting/crawling" sensation under his skin.

In many ways, he's a normal 22-year-old, albeit a bit troubled. He is of average height and build, with the pale skin of someone who spends most of his time in front of a computer. He's struggled with drug addiction, loneliness and depression, and he and his mom have had their issues, although things are better now. He's taking classes at the community college in Austin where his mom works as a software engineer, and he's made some friends there. Maybe he'll move out soon.

If only he could get better. He's always been sickly, even as a boy growing up in Washington state, but this is unlike anything he and his mom have seen before. The itching isn't even the worst of it. He has lesions all over his thin, frail body, on his legs, his arms, the back of his neck. His sweat is black, thick as tar. Something is terribly wrong with him.

He knows what it is, even if most doctors don't acknowledge it as a real disease. It's called Morgellons. He discovered it on the Internet in January 2005. All over the country, but especially in Texas, Florida and California, people are diagnosing themselves. They are ranchers and lawyers and bartenders, people from all walks of life, in cities big and small. And they have the same symptoms--the itching, the lesions, the fibers.

Yes, the fibers. That's really the worst part. Fibers sprouting from his skin. Thin, like fishing wire, sometimes blue or red, growing from his body. One night he looked down and, to his horror, saw a spaghetti-like strand sticking out of his chest. He called out to his mom, who found a pair of tweezers and tried to pull it out, but the fiber sunk back, like it had a mind of its own.

He figures he caught the disease in Mexico, perhaps from drinking the water. Or maybe he caught it because he has Lyme disease, like his mother. There are all kinds of theories on the Internet: Maybe it came from "chemtrails"--the exhaust plumes from jet planes--or chiggers or a government conspiracy. He doesn't know what to believe. He has a disease with no known cause and, worse, no known cure. Beyond the bizarre physical symptoms, it makes him weak and forgetful. His left hand sometimes trembles, he loses his sense of smell, he goes days without sleeping or eating.

Morgellons, a disease that may not even be real, is slowly killing him. And although he doesn't know it yet, he will become its public face.



Before 2002, nobody had heard of Morgellons disease. Today, there are more than 4,000 people in the United States who say they have it, and hundreds more worldwide. Doctors who believe the disease is real, and there are at least a dozen, have no idea what causes it. As Wilson discovered, the theories range from the plausible (bugs) to the outlandish (French bottled water). Whatever its cause, those who have seen the disease up close say it is horrifying, like something out of a sci-fi movie.
"It's unlike anything we've seen to this point," says Ginger Savely, a San Francisco nurse practitioner who has treated more than 125 Morgellons patients, most of them from Texas. "It's so different that it sounds kind of...well, it's scary because it's so different. Some of the things I've seen, it could really make you doubt your own sanity." Wilson's symptoms, for example--lesions, black sweat, colored fibers sprouting from the skin--are some of the most commonly described symptoms. Other side effects include hair loss, "brain fog," crippling fatigue and, occasionally, the disintegration of teeth.

Two of the largest clusters of the disease, according to the Morgellons Research Foundation, are in the Houston and Dallas areas. Judy Egan, a 55-year-old bar manager who lives near Arlington, says she and her husband contracted Morgellons about a year ago after handling produce at a farmers market near Mansfield. Both have seen strange fibers coming out of their skin. Others who have the illness are afraid to speak publicly about it, fearing friends and co-workers will think they're nuts.

"If somebody would have told me about this two and a half years ago I would have thought, well, too much LSD for you," says an Allen middle school teacher who didn't want to be identified. "You know, this doesn't sound like anything from our world. It's so out there."

Mainstream medicine dismisses the disease as imaginary, and most Morgellons sufferers have been diagnosed with delusional parasitosis, a psychiatric condition in which patients believe they are infested with parasites. Psychiatrists have noted that patients with this disorder will sometimes dig out small fibers--which are most likely peripheral nerve endings--to prove that bugs are in fact crawling under their skin. Other doctors suspect the fibers are actually from clothing, carpet or upholstery.

"It's probably just a variant of delusions of parasitosis," says Dr. Dan Eisen, a University of California at Davis dermatologist. "It's fairly common. Most dermatologists have seen people who complain that they have bugs crawling under their skin. This sounds like the same thing, except they're not complaining of bugs, they're complaining of fibers."

July 20, 2006

Morgellons: Disease or delusion?

By Navid Ezra
http://www.theacorn.com/news/2006/0720/Hea...llness/053.html


In the past, patients with psychological disorders would often be beaten for disobedience and jailed for inappropriate behavior due to the lack of understanding of their ailment. Physicians would not take the time to perform a proper examination, nor have the compassion to listen to the afflicted.

The same problem has arisen with Morgellons Disease, a disorder with symptoms that include unexplained sores that won't heal and the sensation of something crawling beneath the skin. Ninety-five percent of Morgellons patients are diagnosed with delusional parasitosis, a psychological disorder, and given antipsychotic medication as treatment.

A 35-year-old female recently came to the NeuroMed and NeuroTox Association in Agoura Hills complaining of materials protruding from her skin that look like thin, multicolored threads. Taking off her socks, she showed the physician what appeared to be white lint, but said her skin was producing shiny fibers. For most doctors, this claim would be difficult to accept since white socks often leave white fibers, yet Dr. Gunnar Heuser chose to believe Patty (not her real name), and took a sample of the fiber to be analyzed by a lab.

Dr. William T. Harvey from the Morgellons Research Foundation insists the Morgellon's phenomenon is real.

Distinct geographic cluster areas of this disease have been noted near Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Jose and San Diego, as well as near Houston, Dallas, Austin, and Round Rock in Texas. Although California represents 12 percent of the U.S. population, 26 percent of those registered with the Morgellons Research Foundation reside in California.

It is difficult to say whether Morgellons is contagious. The physicians at the Morgellons Research Foundation have seen family members of affected individuals who exhibit no symptoms whatsoever. On the other hand, many entire families have reported becoming infected at or near the same time.

Many patients have been told their symptoms are psychiatric and have been placed on potent drugs to help heal their "psychosis." But the disorder may be more common than anyone suspects. It has been identified as an infectious disease and could be the cause of many suspicious skin lesions.

The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) decided in June to begin investigating Morgellons and determine whether it truly exists. The action from the CDC came after more than a year of pressure from patients who are convinced they have Morgellons.

"We need to debunk this if there isn't anything to it or identify if there is indeed a new, unrecognized disease that needs attention," said Dan Rutz, C D C spokesperson.

E v e n

E v e n as an increasing number of doctors admit that Morgellons is a physical, not psychological disorder, opportunities for treatment remain limited.

Some doctors in Texas and the Bay Area have tried treating patients with antibiotics and other medicines. Heuser said he hopes to use hyperbaric oxygen treatment, as it has shown to be successful in some situations.

There is no accepted cure, however, since the disease continues to be a mystery to researchers.

Mom fights for answers on what's wrong with her son

Sunday, July 23, 2006
By Chico Harlan, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06204/707970-85.stm


It is summer 2001, an evening, 9 p.m. A husband sleeps, tired from work. Two older children go to bed. The house on a wooded dead-end street in the McMurray area of Peters, falls quiet, but for the mother and youngest son, at least one of whom appears sick.

Drew is 2, almost 3. He says "mommy" and "daddy" and "milk," and often, when he points to an irritated patch of skin under his lips, "bugs." How strange, the mother thinks. She's already taken Drew to several Pittsburgh dermatologists and pediatricians, but nothing they've prescribed, for eczema, for atypical scabies, has stopped his itching. On this night, the mother bathes him, paying careful attention to his skin.

The boy snuggles into his mother's lap, dried off, quiet and agreeable. Mary Leitao rubs him with the prescribed scabies cream, making gentle circles with her hands. In the years that follow, the mother will think often about this moment, cursing it, re-examining it and pinpointing it as the start of everything. As Ms. Leitao rubs, something fiber-like emerges from the boy's skin, she'll later say. As a biologist, she's mesmerized. As a mother, she's horrified.

Ms. Leitao collects a sample of the strands from Drew's skin. They glide right off, like filaments from a dandelion. She places them onto slides, examining them under an $8 RadioShack microscope. She's looked thousands of times into microscopes, fancier ones, first as a biology student at the University of Massachusetts-Boston, and later for five years as a medical researcher at two Boston hospitals. She's seen nothing like this before. She shakes her head and thinks, "These things cannot be coming out of my son's body."

The ambiguity soon rearranges her life. The resulting medical mission will come to obsess her and challenge her sanity, in large part because she's suddenly been planted opposite the mainstream medical community. The symptoms that Ms. Leitao now attributes to some 4,500 people nationwide are, by word of most dermatologists and psychiatrists, a part of delusional parasitosis, a psychiatric disorder. Victims complain of similar symptoms: crawling sensations and skin infestations. Those with delusional parasitosis insist such problems truly exist, and cycle from physician to physician, seeking validation, never finding it.

But then Mary Leitao sees something sprout from her boy's skin, and she sets out to find answers.


Galvanizing force


"Fibers," she calls them at first. She hopes to find they're merely sweater strands, or a simple fungus. But after months of studying, she finds something else, something variably red and black and blue that fluoresces under the proper light. Her first description: under magnification, the fibers appear ribbon-like and coenocytic, meaning without cell walls. Dozens of times, Ms. Leitao tries to prove herself wrong. People don't sprout fibers, logic tells her. She swabs Drew's irritations clean, ensuring them to be fiber-free, and covers them with a sterile, nonfibrous wrap. The fibers return.

Ms. Leitao uses a biology lab to continue her studies. She concludes that the medical system owes her some answers. Her husband, Edward, an internist with South Allegheny Internal Medicine in Bethel Park, tells her as much: Rely on medicine, he says. He, too, feels Drew has something unknown, and what good research doctor can resist a chance to crack away at an answer?

Ms. Leitao spends hours at home searching the Internet. She arrives at a message board, a scabies forum, where people nationwide share stories about crawling sensations and fibers. From the discussion board participants, Ms. Leitao hears that those symptoms often portend something far worse: a debilitating cognitive and neurological breakdown, appearing similar to chronic fatigue syndrome. An Internet user e-mails Ms. Leitao: If you are seeing these fibers with your son, you have a big problem.

First, Ms. Leitao accepts this notion, and then she fights for it. The stay-at-home mother, a graduate of Aliquippa High School, galvanizes an unknown subset of the country, a group united by its claims of crawling sensations and fibers.

Ms. Leitao creates a Web site (Morgellons Research Foundation) devoted to what she believes is a new disease, which she names Morgellons after an obscure 17th century French reference to black hairs. It is now March 29, 2004. She formally establishes the Morgellons Research Foundation, a nonprofit group headquartered in her home.

She's the executive director, meaning she must endure two recurring messages, both burdensome in their own ways. Those disputing the disease tell her she's crazy. Those convinced they're suffering from it tell her she's their last hope.

Daily, she spends four or five hours talking on the phone. She corresponds with a woman in Texas who once poured lighter fluid on her skin lesions, hoping to set fire to the insects inside her. She befriends a man in Virginia who'd gained 100 pounds and spent four years on his sofa, isolated from friends and family. And when a twentysomething dies of a painkiller overdose, ending his fight with Morgellons symptoms, Ms. Leitao calls the man's mother and tells her, "We are fighting a system that's so messed up."

In quieter moments, that self-assuredness threatens to buckle. Ms. Leitao's foundation inspires no medical uproar, no political support, no government action, perhaps for good reason.

Those registered as Morgellons sufferers swarm medical offices, reciting stories about the fibers, the fatigue, the joint swelling, the nights in which itching prevents sleep, the fatigue that drops them onto the couch for 30 hours straight, the hopelessness that prompts thoughts of suicide. The implausibility of such frenzied symptoms begets a common, simpler diagnosis.

"They suffer terribly, but it's psychiatric," said Dr. Dirk Elston, a dermatologist in the Geisinger Medical System in Danville, Montour County. "The fact that there's something online to cling to, it's a difficult obstacle for us."

"The moment you mention psychiatrists, these patients get extremely angry," said psychiatrist Alistair Munro, author of "Delusional Disorder."

"They say there's nothing wrong with their brain. They have all kinds of explanations."

Drew continues to see doctors, Ms. Leitao by his side. The fibers still sprout. The pair meets with UPMC dermatologist Douglas Kress, who diagnoses eczema. His prescribed medications fail to help. Ms. Leitao speaks with pediatrician Dr. Michael Frac, who describes himself as "pretty conservative, not a left-field-type of person."

The Bethel Park physician knows the medical skepticism about Morgellons, but he also knows history. He thinks of Polly Murray, who, decades before, had tried to convince the medical world that she was sick, not simply hypochondriacal. Her persistence pioneered Lyme disease.

"Maybe mainstream medicine has been dismissive of this, too," Dr. Frac said. "They haven't given this a fair shake." He acknowledges that most physicians lack the research power to find the causality of new diseases. He refers Ms. Leitao to Dr. Fred Heldrich, a Johns Hopkins pediatrician known for solving mystery cases.

Ms. Leitao continues to work from her home office. She eventually gathers seven advocates -- nurses and physicians -- into a medical advisory board, all volunteers, and she lists the supporters on her Web site.

The new voices widen Ms. Leitao's platform: Georgia-based pediatrician Dr. Greg Smith, who identifies himself as a Morgellons sufferer, writes to politicians with his story. Texas nurse Ginger Savely treats some 125 patients, telling them, as she prepares experimental treatments, "You're signing up as a lab rat." Dr. William Harvey, a former medical director of the lab contracted to work for NASA, observes 70 patients complaining of Morgellons and finds that all carry a bacteria called Borrelia, which, possibly, tampers with the entire immune system. He treats patients with antibiotics -- Rocephin or Zithromax -- and almost always, symptoms subside.

But the success, purely anecdotal, never helps Drew. His doctors refuse to prescribe powerful antibiotics without research that proves the need for them. On the advice of Dr. Frac, Drew and Ms. Leitao drive to Baltimore to visit the Hopkins expert, Dr. Heldrich. He forms his own conclusion about proper treatment of Morgellons.

"I found no evidence of [anything suspicious] in Andrew," Dr. Heldrich wrote to Dr. Frac after the visit. Then he added: "Ms. Leitao would benefit from a psychiatric evaluation and support, whether Andrew has Morgellons disease or not. I hope she will cease to use her son in further exploring this problem."


Rejection, widowhood


Ms. Leitao endures the rejections and then, overnight, she must endure something more severe. It is July 27, 2004. Her husband, Edward, dies at 54 of cardiac arrhythmia. Her two older children, Jeremy and Samantha, both teenagers, now experience Morgellons symptoms, too, she says. They struggle to concentrate in school and miss dozens of class days. Her daughter takes ibuprofen every day for joint pain and quits the swim team. On days they do attend school, they return home and go straight to bed.

Over time, Ms. Leitao comes to think of herself as a machine engineered for one objective, denying grief because she can't afford it. Still, she recognizes the futility of a single-handed mission against the establishment. She needs help.

Dr. Randy Wymore finds her just in time. The Oklahoma State University assistant professor of pharmacology and physiology stumbles onto Ms. Leitao's Web site while surfing online. He's a glutton for unknowns.

Dr. Wymore, a Unitarian, holds himself to no dogma.

"We don't claim to have all the answers," he said, "but let's try to help one another on the journey."

So he decides to help Ms. Leitao.

In the summer after her husband's death, Ms. Leitao moves her family to Myrtle Beach, S.C., a new start. At the same time, Dr. Wymore and his family drive from Tulsa, Okla., to California for a vacation. On the way, Dr. Wymore collects dozens of fiber samples: From clothing on Goodwill racks. From hotel drapes. From room corners upswept for 20 years. Though he maintains an open mind, he hypothesizes that Morgellons fibers come from an outside source, something easily explained.

Hundreds of Morgellons fibers arrive at his lab, sent from desperate patients, sent from nurses and doctors. As Dr. Wymore begins a comparison, his skepticism erodes. The fibers resemble one another, and yet they do not resemble hair or waste material or cellulose or any known textile substance.

The fibers, about the size of small eyebrow hairs, are not living organisms, Dr. Wymore decides. He teams with a Tulsa police department crime lab to sort through fiber samples, and though the lab owns a database of more than 800 fibers, these fibers match nothing.

By winter, Dr. Wymore asks Ms. Leitao to fly with her three children to Tulsa. Seven other Morgellons patients will meet there, too, for a one-day preliminary study. Two OSU physicians, Dr. Rhonda Casey and Dr. W. Stephen Eddy, examine the Leitao children's skin. Both doctors, within 45 seconds, encounter fibers lurking beneath unbroken skin. It is Feb. 23, 2006, the day Dr. Wymore and the doctors he's working with become certain of Morgellons' existence.

He plans the next steps, knowing he must gather funding and allies. One person will not figure this out, he decides. Dr. Wymore currently awaits spectroscopy results offering information about the physical and chemical components of the fibers.

"See, the people who don't want to discuss this, they just say, 'We don't grow red and blue fibers.' To a certain extent, it's a little bit of that Earth-is-flat mentality," Dr. Wymore said. "But how many people are open to self-change? [Morgellons] is almost as difficult to wrap your mind around as trying to convince someone to change religious views. Think about it: How often does that work?"


Waiting for answers


It is June 2006. Drew now sleeps with his eyes half-open, a neurological abnormality that worries Ms. Leitao. Drew can't play baseball this season, because he sweats profusely in sunshine and sweat triggers his skin irritations. So instead, Ms. Leitao pitches to him in the yard.

Her older children show pronounced joint swelling. They struggle to concentrate and receive intermittent homebound instruction, available to students whose health limits school attendance.

Ms. Leitao gathers only a handful of donations for her foundation, and has yet to receive a grant. An anonymous blogger maintains an anti-Morgellons Web site rife with personal attacks. Some living with Morgellons become so discontented, they channel frustration toward the one person they can associate with the disease.

"People say, 'Mary, you need to take a break from this.' But it's not like I can forget about this now. I have a lot of friends with this, and they are all incredibly sick. Their neurological problems are getting worse. I've got to see this through. This is a mission. I don't know. ... I think it's fear-based behavior. It does appear to be a bit neurotic, unless you realize what is the driving force. The love of my children and the fear of an unknown disease.

"You know, maybe if enough baseball players get Morgellons, or enough politicians' children? I know, I sound like a crazy woman. ... But what does it take? What does it take?"

Dan Rutz joins an afternoon conference call with Ms. Leitao and her team. He's the spokesman for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Ms. Leitao had written to him months before, asking for an investigation. "[F]or the past four years, ... I have been waking up to a horrifying nightmare," she wrote. Now, Mr. Rutz says, it will happen. The CDC will form a task force to investigate Morgellons. The group will need months to assess the disease's existence with case-control studies and lab work and, perhaps, a scientific fiber examination.

The CDC terms Morgellons a syndrome, fictitious until proven real.

But Mr. Rutz, as the next month passes, allows for the possibility.

"The fact that people are suffering is real," he said. "We don't know if this can be explained under existing paradigms or if it is something new. But these people deserve more than to be blown off."

It is July 11. A 13-member CDC committee meets for the second time. The group includes infectious disease experts, parasitic disease experts, environmental health workers and, indeed, mental health specialists.

Ms. Leitao waits at home, one mile from the beach, knowing a CDC-issued answer could take months. She and Drew watch SpongeBob.

"At the end of the day," Ms. Leitao said, "the truth will stand alone."

(Chico Harlan can be reached at aharlan@post-gazette.com or 412-263-1227. )

Photos Of A Typical Morgellons Callus

From Jan Smith
7-23-6


These photos contain views of the Morgellon's disease structure know as the Callus.

There are photos which show the nearly impermeable thickened, reddish-callused component that is visible from the surface of the skin. This callus protects the substructures and continues to grow as well. The photos also show other structures associated with that part of the Callus.

There are other photos which show the milky to transparent Callus-tentacles and the appurtenant structures associated with that subcutaneous portion of the Callus.

There is a marked difference in the clarity and texture of the callus materials before and after removing them from the body. I have shown these differences as best I can.

It is important to not that many of these structures are tightly grouped together forming a nearly intractable fortress to protect the feeding Callus structures beneath the skin. If even a single one is these structures is able to be removed from the Callus it is with great pain and great physical force.

In the aftermath, there is profuse bleeding of an unusually thinned watery version of normal blood. It is as if some chemical compound in the tentacle is acting as a blood thinner. The removal of these callus particles leaves a deep hole in the skin which will generate and fill the void with a new tentacled protrusion is just hours.

Jan Smith

CDC considers Texas for Morgellons study

Web Posted: 07/25/2006 12:50 AM CDT
Deborah Knapp
KENS 5 Eyewitness News
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/medical/s...S.1e13fade.html


The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is launching a study of Morgellons disease that may target South Texas where more than 100 people are suffering from the illness.

Cindy Casey suffers from Morgellons. Symptoms of the disease include lesions that leave scars, the sensation of bugs crawling under the skin, and fibers that pop out of the skin.

"Mostly black and white. Some of them were blue, and some of them were red. The whole area gets really sore and you feel some sort of crawling sensation around the lesion," Casey said.

Like others, Casey was diagnosed with delusional parasitosis — delusions of parasites. Most doctors do not recognize Morgellons as a disease.



However, one medical school is taking Morgellons very seriously. Most of the research on Morgellons is being done at Oklahoma State University in Tulsa. Doctors and scientists at OSU said this disease is real, and it's frightening.

"I am 100 percent convinced that Morgellons is a real disease pathology," said Dr. Randy Wymore, an assistant professor of pharmacology and physiology at OSU.

Wymore has spent the past year studying hundreds of fibers from Morgellons patients.

"The samples do look very similar to one another," he said.

Wymore added that the fibers don't look like anything found in textiles. He has also determined that the fibers are not rubbing off from clothing, because doctors at OSU have found the fibers inside the body.

"We were able to observe fibers under completely unbroken skin," he said.

Dr. Rhonda Casey has examined more than 30 Morgellons patients.

"There's no question in my mind that it's a real disease," she said.

Dr. Casey has extracted fibers from under the skin, and examined them under a microscope.

"If it were not for the fibers, the patients would all be taken seriously. So I think even though the fibers may be a key to helping us diagnose this disease, they have also been a hinderance to it even being accepted as a real disease in the past," she said.

Even thought the lesions and fibers are the most visible symptoms, doctors said the more damaging effects of this disease are the nerve and neurological damage, which affects the ability to think and move.

"Trouble concentrating, trouble communicating, and problems thinking of the words you want to say, and how you want to express yourself," patient Cindy Casey said.

However, it is the symptoms that sound like science fiction that make this disease like no other.

"I pulled some fibers out, and I was just taking a look at it, and the fibers just started to move around, kind of around each other," Cindy Casey said. "And I screamed to Charles (my husband), 'Charles, come here and look, because everyone's been telling me I'm crazy. Charles, look at this,' and he looked at it, and yeah, he saw it too."

"This one I didn't want to believe," Charles Casey said.

Incidents like that are just one more bizarre part to this puzzling disease that seems to be spreading.

"There is the slightly frightening component to it that we don't know what causes this. If more and more people are coming down with Morgellons, we need to get a handle on this," Wymore said. "Is there an environmental component that needs to be addressed? Is it contagious? These are all things that we don't know the answer to at this point."

The CDC has formed a task force to investigate Morgellons, and they are launching a study to find out where this condition is most common and who it affects. Texas is one of the states with the most cases per capita, and the epidemiology study may be conducted here.

The CDC has setup an e-mail address for people to ask questions, because of the volume of calls following the reports that aired on KENS 5 in May. That e-mail address is morgellonssyndrome@cdc.gov.

Itching for Answers to a Mystery Condition

Fed up with doctors calling them delusional, a group suffering from nightmarish symptoms has pressured the CDC to look into their disease

By PAIGE BOWERS/ATLANTA
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,...1220349,00.html


Dr. Gregory Smith wants people to know it's not all in his head. According to the Gainesville, Ga., pediatrician, white fibers have been burrowing into his skin for the past two years, making him feel like he's under constant bombardment from insects or cactus needles. Shine a black light on these fibers and they'll fluoresce blue, he says, just like something you'd see in The Twilight Zone. He describes looking into the mirror one night, only to see one burrow down into his eye.

"Yes ma'am, I was a little bit distraught," recalls Smith, 58, who says he can no longer work because his mysterious ailment has also robbed him of his memory and neurological function. "I tried to grab a hold of it with tweezers and it would not come out. It was quite painful, so I threw up my hands and went to the Emergency Room with my wife."

For Smith, and some 4,000 people across the nation who claim to suffer from similar symptoms, it's the reaching out that has been problematic. The disease, called Morgellons after a reference in a 1674 medical paper, isn't officially recognized by the medical community. Some have suggested that it is a hoax, even a viral marketing campaign for a sci-fi movie. But sufferers say it's real and that there have been a growing number of cases across the nation of people with these painful fibers, skin lesions, crippling fatigue and memory loss. No one knows what causes Morgellons and no one knows how to cure it.

But Smith and his fellow sufferers are itching for answers. That's why they've pressured the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) to assemble a team of scientists who will determine whether this disease is in fact for real. The 13-member team is expected to share their findings within the next two months. "We're not ready to concede there's a new disease," says CDC spokesman Dan Rutz. "But the volume of concern has stepped up because a lot of people are writing or calling their congressmen about it because they're frustrated that there's been no organized way to deal with their suffering."

But even with CDC involvement, Morgellons sufferers like Smith are still frustrated that they haven't been asked for their input. Smith, for his part, says he has offered to ship his own properly prepared Morgellons specimens to the CDC for review, but claims the agency "blew it off." And the South Carolina-based Morgellons Research Foundation volunteered to share research that an Oklahoma State University professor has done on the disease — some of it suggesting it could be contagious — but they say they were rebuffed as well. The CDC has said that it would conduct its own research first, then vet the findings with outside scientists.

In the meantime, Smith says he's just trying to keep up with the simple things in life. Unable to practice medicine for the past year because of neurological and cognitive problems he believes are a result of the disease, he says he is overwhelmed by mundane tasks like housework or hobbies like working in the yard. "From day to day, I can't predict how I'll feel," he says. "It's understandable why many people are skeptical about this illness. The symptoms are so unusual that they just don't make any sense. I even question my own sanity from time to time. But if this is all psychiatric, please give me something to make it go away."

Mysterious Skin Disease Causes Itching, Loose Fibers

Morgellons Has Plenty of Skeptics

By CYNTHIA McFADDEN
http://www.abcnews.go.com/GMA/Health/story?id=2246987&page=1


July 28, 2006 — Imagine your skin burning and itching, and feeling like bugs are crawling under or on top of it.

Imagine having open sores on your face and body. Then imagine having stringlike fibers literally coming out of your skin.

That's exactly what patients with a mysterious illness called Morgellons disease say happens to them.

Anne Dill is just one of thousands of patients across the country who suffer from these strange symptoms.

Sometimes it feels as if there's something moving under her scalp, she said, and fibers come out of her skin.

"There's this fibrous material," Dill said. "It's in layers. It's — I feel like it isolates itself. I think there's pockets of it."

Dill said she was reluctant to talk about the illness because she knew that some people would think she was crazy.

"Oh, I know, because right away that's what I know that they're gonna say. 'Uh, there's no such thing,'" Dill said.

That's exactly what most doctors do say: As far as they know, Morgellons is not a recognized disease, at this point, at least.

"I've seen colors of some of these fibers. Some of them are bright blue," said Dr. Vincent De Leo, program director of the dermatology department at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center in New York.

"There is nothing in the body that is bright blue. So it has to be something from the environment. And some of them are fibers, but they're fibers I believe from the environment, not from inside the skin."



What about the open sores?



De Leo and many others believe the lesions are self-inflicted, caused by scratching because the patients have a psychiatric disorder where they wrongly believe their bodies are infested with parasites.



"And then they begin to focus on those lesions and try to get them better, usually by picking out the fibers or the bugs or whatever it is," De Leo said.



Despite the skepticism surrounding Morgellons, one researcher, biochemist Randy Wymore, is looking into the disease and believes it's something real.



He has collected samples from many victims and analyzed the fibers under a microscope. They resemble no other substance he can find, he said.



"While the experiments have to be repeated, this fiber was not cotton. It was no known synthetic fiber. It was of unknown origin. We don't know the composition at this point," said Wymore of Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences.

Dill has her own idea about what could be causing Morgellons.



"I think there's some kind of organism that's transferred back and forth," she said. "I don't even think it's microscopic. I think it's macro. And I think it's so easy to see that it could bite them in the face but nobody will even look."

Mysterious Skin

Are local woman's scabs, scars Morgellons disease, or something else?

By Mari Nicholson, Staff Writer
http://www.sbsun.com/entertainment/ci_4114843




Betty Armour is afraid to wear shorts, afraid of what people might think if they saw.
Afraid of what they might say to her if she told them her truth.

I have Morgellons disease, she'd say.

From the knees down, Armour isn't herself, and she hasn't been for two and a half years. The fronts of her legs are noticeably discolored and bruised.

It's a mixture of brown and purplish-looking scar tissue with pimply sores that itch and sting sometimes, said Armour, 42.

The wounds are so close together, they look like trails leading nowhere.

"I think they have a wiry, suture quality to them,'' she said.

The Rancho Cucamonga woman has had similar, bizarre skin "lesions,'' for lack of a more descriptive or all-encompassing word, on her ankles, arms, breasts and hands.

Painful sores on the tips of her fingers swelled up over Armour's nails and obstructed regular growth. Picking at them helped relieve tension, she says; today, they look fairly healthy.

She had similar swelling on her feet; her shoe size has gone from size 8 to 10.

At first, Armour thought she had come down with her second bout of lichen planus, a relatively common skin disease that afflicted her 15 years ago and is possibly linked to stress, experts say.

Lichen planus usually fades, however, and although Armour's lesions have changed over time, they certainly aren't all gone.

Fruitless research ensued until a May 20 television broadcast on CBS/Channel 2 and KCAL/Channel 9 opened Armour's eyes to Morgellons, a mysterious skin disorder first described more than 300 years ago as an "endemial distemper'' witnessed in children.

Further, she found there to be more than 4,500 registered households listed on the Morgellons Research Foundation Web site.

The segment touched upon most of the symptoms Armour says she suffers, such as fatigue, joint pain and difficulty concentrating. This trio are so debilitating sometimes, a career beyond taking care of her teenagers - ages 15, 17, 19 - and miniature poodle seems like a pipe dream.

Before her health problems began, Armour, who grew up in La Puente, was an administrator at an area Longs Drugs distribution center for nearly a decade.

"I look forward to getting back to work, but I wouldn't hire me right now,'' Armour said.

And then there are the fibers.

According to research published in the American Journal of Clinical Dermatology, Morgellons disease is characterized by poorly healing skin lesions with thick, membranous scarring as well as fiberlike strands extruding from the lesions.

Armour describes her fibers, which come off pretty easily, as cottonlike, fuzzy and many shades: beige, black, green and white. Others claiming to be afflicted have reported different colors.

She's retained fiber samples in Ziploc bags and plastic containers, including "suturelike'' fibers she's coughed up.

"It's getting very frustrating when people tell me I don't know what I'm talking about,'' she said. "I know it's real, I have the evidence.''

But even her son didn't buy it at first.

"I thought she was crazy . . . but then I saw it on the news and realized other people have it,'' said 17-year-old Keith Snyder.

Armour's children live with her, hug her and haven't exhibited any of the six characteristic symptoms of Morgellons, as defined in the research foundation's case definition presented to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Feb. 14. The six are:

1. Intensely itchy skin lesions, both appearing spontaneously and self-generated.

2. Crawling sensations conceptualized by the patient as bugs moving, stinging or biting, intermittently.

3. Fatigue.

4. Cognitive difficulties.

5. Behavioral effects, as many Morgellons patients have been diagnosed with attention-deficit (hyperactivity) disorder, bipolar disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder or something similar.

6. Fibers.

Limited research has tried to link the skin ailment to Lyme disease as well as antibacterial therapy.

Since Armour began seeking treatment two and a half years ago, physicians at her usual medical facility - PrimeCare of Inland Valley in Rancho Cucamonga - have neither alleviated her symptoms nor diagnosed her with anything more than dermatitis.

"I brought up Morgellons with one doctor,'' she said, "but he thought I was bonkers and wouldn't hear of it.''

The term Morgellons is nowhere near acceptance in the medical community.

"It's something we've heard of and consulted physicians about,'' said San Bernardino County Health Officer Eric Frykman.

"We determined that although it's significant for particular individuals, it isn't currently affecting the county in any widespread way,'' said Frykman, 36.

Without public outreach, Armour can't do much but wait. She longs to, but hasn't met or talked with anyone who suffers her symptoms.

"I want to meet other people with Morgellons and figure out what caused this in us, what our common denominators are,'' she said.

One commonality: Almost all Morgellons believers treated by doctors have been loosely or officially diagnosed with delusional parasitosis. Whether doctors are drawing this conclusion too quickly is unclear.

Delusional parasitosis refers to a psychiatric disorder in which patients, even entire families, mistakenly believe they are infested with skin parasites and refuse psychiatric diagnoses. In this case, visible skin lesions are coincidental or self-generated.

Also, according to the American Journal of Clinical Dermatology, medical students learn of the "matchbox sign'' of delusional parasitosis: patients carrying around samples of hair, lint or fuzz as proof of their infestation.

The same symptoms are also seen in people with formication delusions - tactile hallucinations of insects, snakes or other vermin crawling over their skin-- and methamphetamine users, said Frykman.

"I need to see more evidence before I start calling this a condition of public-health importance for the county,'' he said.

MORGELLON DISEASE: EVERYONE MAY BE INFECTED!

"You are infected by a stray (non disclosed) target of a proteome research center." "The fact that so little official reaction exists is because the facts will have a tremendous effect on the economy; in particular to existing policy in relation to bio technology." "Fact is that people who know what this element does represent will not let the public know, because international upheaval will be the result, as well politically, economically as what concerns the opinion of the general public."

http://www.crossinglines.net/

http://www.silentsuperbug.com/

The strongest proof as to this illness's being caused by a released product of experimental genomic/proteomic research is shown at
www.silentsuperbug.com.

Dr. Gregory Smith wants people to know it's not all in his head. According to the Gainesville, Ga., pediatrician, white fibers have been burrowing into his skin for the past two years, making him feel like he's under constant bombardment from insects or cactus needles. Shine a black light on these fibers and they'll fluoresce blue, he says, just like something you'd see in The Twilight Zone. He describes looking into the mirror one night, only to see one burrow down into his eye.
"Yes ma'am, I was a little bit distraught," recalls Smith, 58, who says he can no longer work because his mysterious ailment has also robbed him of his memory and neurological function. "I tried to grab a hold of it with tweezers and it would not come out. It was quite painful, so I threw up my hands and went to the Emergency Room with my wife."

I will be discussing this during an hour long interview on the radio program "In Short Order" with Sue Vogan. Aug 17 at 9:00 pm eastern time. To Listen to the broadcast go to www.highway2health.net Aug 17 at 9:00 pm eastern time--It is a major potential threat.

Morgellons in the Media
http://www.crossinglines.net/morgellons_media.htm

Agree with yr comments re the CDC - "Asking for help from the CDC is like asking Jack the Ripper to help you find Jack the Ripper."

Read the following email exchange between a CDC rep and the guy who put together the website crossinglines.net

Pay special attention to this part where he replies as to the qualifications of the guy (Dan Rutz) who is in charge of media access via CDC for Morgellon's; it should tell you what importance they place on keeping this contained. That is, not the illness/disease, but the public spin on it and repurcussions. To date most people have never even heard of Morgellon's.
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Dear_________:

Thank you for your reply. Having had a day to absorb your words and also to read more about your career history and current position as special advisor, has confirmed my thoughts as to the fact that we are in quite a bit of trouble in regards to this illness. This would also explain the lack of public notification as to the reality of this disorder. If this was not the case I doubt someone of your qualifications would be the one leading the media activities around this illness. I simply want to know that this is being taken seriously by all federal health agencies and to understand the delay in public action on their parts. As I am writing this, I am listening to your lecture on crisis communication at Emory university. A good lecture with a very frightening undertone.

Hello Mr. Rutz, Dr. Gerberding,
My name is____and I am hoping that you could answer a few questions for me concerning this new and emerging illness some are calling morgellons disease. I have had it for going on 4 years, and this illness, as I am not quite certain the CDC is aware, is definitely contagious, infectious or both. I say this with certainty because after 2 years of suffering from it, the acute symptoms gradually became less to the point where I believed myself over it. That is when I met my fiancé and she moved in with me. Perhaps I simply became accustomed to the sensations this illness causes, as I obviously still carried it. I am not sure how the transmission to her occurred, sexually perhaps? I do not know for certain as others close to me have not yet shown symptoms. I say yet simply because it took a little more than 1 year from the time____moved in, until she began showing the acute stages of this nightmare. So in our case anyway, besides being persistent, this is infectious, contagious or both, and latent. For just how long is a good question, but for her it took a little more than 1 year. It has now been a little more than one year since then, and now both of our symptoms have lessened considerably. But now we have reason for all the concern one can imagine. ____is Pregnant. 15 weeks. Which leads me to my questions. Is the CDC even aware of this disorder? If so, what is being done about it? Is anything being done about it? Do you have any clue as to what is causing this illness, or ideas towards its susceptibility pattern? Can you recommend any type of treatment options? Do you know anything concerning the transmission of this pathogen to a newborn? Or any information concerning this illness related to pregnancy? Are you aware of any others that have gone full term which could inform or prepare us as to what to expect or ways of avoiding any problems with our baby?
Why has there been no public notification concerning this illness by the CDC? It is, without question, spreading rather quickly now. Could you please explain to me why there has been no public offering of information or warnings issued?
Can you offer any thoughts concerning the video claiming to document this pathogen found at:

www.silentsuperbug.com

His theory is a bit unbelievable and very frightening considering the fact that what is shown in the video is the exact same things I have seen on myself.
I have many other questions, but these are a good start. Because of the pregnancy, time is critical and we anxiously await your reply.

Thank you for your time
P.S. Please do not respond with something ridiculous such as recommending us to qualified physicians, Unless you can confidently refer us to one. They are without clue and very quick to refer to psychiatrist. We live in the san Francisco bay area, but are willing to travel for “qualified” help. Again, thank you for your time.
(They lost their baby in a spontaneous abortion)

From: Rutz, Dan (CDC/NCID/OD) [mailto:dwr1@...]
Sent: Monday, May 08, 2006 10:03 AM
To: southcity@...
Subject: RE: pregnancy and the transmission of morgellons disease
Dear____:
I am a communications specialist involved with CDC activities around the condition you describe. CDC is aware of the disorder and is working toward a better understanding of it, beginning with the development of a case definition that will begin to address commonalities and distinctions. There is, at this time, no evidence of an infectious agent, so we are not able to address questions raised about that aspect. It is our intention and hope to characterize the situation. Your P.S. aside, you are best advised to seek medical attention for any troubling symptoms and, of course, seek credible prenatal care as well. Thank you for your correspondence. /
Dan Rutz, MPH
Special Assistant for Communications
National Center for Infectious Diseases (NCID)
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
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Is this a chemtrail fiber? It sounds like one more CDC/Ft. Dietrich manufactured bio-weapon. I have read other reports of people who have had embedded fibers in their skins; they claim they got them from chemtrails.
I think the Carnicorn site mentions luminescent fibers:
http://www.carnicom.com/contrails.htm - click on Fibers - again and again
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Sounds like another manufactured mycoplasma designed to ultimately destroy the brain - just another one of their depopulation weapons they have stockpiled over the decades.
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I have scars on my forearm. I cured myself of the itching and MS-like symptoms around lesions etc.

Possibly different things occurring together.

I felt an itching area and MS-like itching and numbness. At first there was no visible symptom.

If I experienced the same thing again, I would first use strong non-prescription anti-fungal cream for three days. Then I would move to "black bloodroot salve", with caster oil(any food oil or butter) packs with heat, and/or E and DMSO for the packs to make the salve soak down deep.

For parasites I would google "regehr parasite" and use the black walnut tincture, artemesia leaves, clove capsules.

Then see what remains. Fungal conditions usually emanate from the core, so it would be advisable to cultivate intestinal hygiene by minimizing sugar intake, drink clean water, eat fiber(flax?) supplement and acidiphilous("probiotic") supplement, l-glutamine, and in drastic cases enemas/colonic/colema. This all relates to chronic fatigue and depression and anxiety attacks, and so would vitamin and mineral and trace mineral deficiencies.

And what would CDC ever do about that? Perhaps advise you to pay for your bread-and-circuses gladiator team locker room to be treated with permanent antibacterial substance i.e. poison which would not rid you of the superbug (i.e. "antibiotic resistant staph") but would poison you, perhaps causing MS-like symptoms and AIDS-like conditon. Yes, that would be your CDC shunt to corporate profits. Or you could bless a psychiatrist or infectious diseases specialist, CDC might say on behalf of their masters.

-Bob

What an awful tragedy unfolding here.

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF MRF UNDER IRS SCRUTINY?
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New and alarming reports have recently begun to circulate concerning financial irregularities and mismanagement of funds at the Morgellons Research Foundation.

The emerging potential scandal and its attendant controversy is currently focused on alleged malfeasance of office and misappropriation of donated funds by MRF founder and Executive Director, Mary Lietao.

According to sources close to Board Chairman Charles Holman, Ms. Leitao has consistently refused to produce financial records or to account for a large number of donations bequeathed to the foundation by donors.

This, despite repeated requests by Board members.

The missing financial records being sought cover a span of several years.

"We are doing all that we can to account for the donations made to this organization" Says Holman:

"Unfortunately, Ms. Leitao is not cooperating in this effort to provide accountability to the public who's trust she was charged with."

Mr. Holman's office reports that they are extremely concerned that they have been unable to recover any record of donations personally received by Ms. Lietao for the year of 2004.

Board members are also seeking access to financial records for subsequent years including, and up to, year 2006.

According to MRF Board members who have been contacted concerning this issue, no records whatsoever have been released for public examination by Ms. Lietao.

"She has consistently refused to return phone calls made to her by Board officers," reports Dr. Greg Smith, another member of the MRF Board of Directors.

"She also has refused all pertinent information requested by the Foundation's Treasurer" He added.

A spokesman for several of the officers of the Board of the Morgellons Foundation relates that an official IRS investigation of potential civil and criminal activities on the part of the executive Director and Founder Mary Leitao and several others, may soon be under way.

-Cliff Mickelson
http://www.surfingtheapocalypse.net/cgi-bi...cgi?read=146700

Mysterious skin ailment surfaces here

Monday, August 07, 2006
By NATALIE CHAMBERS
http://www.gulflive.com/news/mississippipr...94575334270.xml


PASCAGOULA -- A Pascagoula woman, who asked for anonymity, said she had never been sick a day in her life until a year ago when Hurricane Katrina struck.

Now the 55-year-old woman's body is plagued with a type of stringy-grayish parasite that continues to multiply within her body.

The woman's husband and family dogs also exhibit the same signs.

Pulling "worms" out of her head, face, body and even the bottom of her feet has become a daily, mind-maddening and traumatic experience, she said.

"You can feel them in your lips. They get in your nose. It drives you up a wall. You can see it if I pull it. You think you've got thin gray hair then you look at it closely. One end is thick and the tail is skinny," she said.

The sizes vary. The longest one she has pulled out of her skin is six inches, she said.

The woman said her husband bathes three times a day, generally in ammonia, just to try and rid his body of the worrisome itch.

Can the worms be killed?

"We just flush them or put them in alcohol to kill it," she said.

Bleach also has been used.

"They grow anywhere there is a hair follicle. Your body gets more hair on it and it's nothing but those white hairs. I have even pulled them out of the bottom of my feet. If we told you some of the stories ... people would think we are crazy," she said.

The woman said she does not know where she contracted the invasive matter that she now believes is Morgellons Disease -- and there is no known cure.

The disease is named after a 1674 event in which black hairs or fibers were found in children in France.

Its' physical symptoms are skin lesions, a crawling or biting sensation under the skin and fibers and granules growing out the skin, according to Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences.

Sufferers also have short-term memory losses, attention deficit and mental confusion.

The woman said her family is experiencing all the symptoms, including the feel of fuzzballs in the mouths.

It is currently unknown how Morgellons is transmitted and whether its contagious.

"Katrina has taken a lot away from us. She took our home, our vehicle and our health. For me and my husband -- it's horrible," said the woman.

Cases of Morgellons' have been reported in California, Texas and Florida.

Lois Koskela, a Pascagoula relative of the two victims, said based on their research and non-ending quest for medical assistance, information about the disease is very limited in Jackson County.

She said a couple of visits to area physicians were moot because the doctors had not heard of it, either. The doctors thought they were crazy, said Koskela.

Koskela contacted The Mississippi Press because to bring the story before the public so others who are possibly afflicted will know they are not alone in their struggle.

"We can't be the only ones in town that have it," said the female victim.

Koskela said twice the couple were prescribed Lundane which is used to treat scabies. The prescription did not work, she said.

"We learned what is going on by going to a Web site and we want the story out. Doctors here need to know what is going on," she said.

Koskela said she worried about her relative because of the itching.

"I thought it was nerves the way she was picking at (hair). Then they discovered the worms," she said.

Opinions within the scientific community differs on Morgellons Disease.

Some physicians dispute it exists and considers patients as having delusional parasitosis or mental illness. Others think something is occurring but are not sure quite what. Some researchers have associated it with Lyme's Disease.

The Morgellons Research Foundation was founded in 2002 to answer lingering questions.

"Morgellons patients differ from classical, delusional parasitosis patents in several areas. They do not respond to antipsychotics and new lesions continue to appear upon complete cessation of manual excoriation," said Dr. Randy S. Wymore, director of research, Morgellons Research Foundation at OSU.

The Pascagoula victim said immediately after the storm her family, along with 11 other people, lived along the water in Moss Point and often showered outside.

"I don't know if we got it there or at our house in Pascagoula on Canty Street," she said.

It was a couple months after the storm that the real problem reared its head, she said.

It began with an itch that would not go away.

"My hair kept falling out little by little and then it kept itching a little bit more," she said.

She recalls once asking her husband to scratch her back. He spotted an abnormal growth of white hair all over her back that turned out to be "worms" she said.

Koskela said a sample was sent to a researcher at Louisiana State University. The diagnoses came back as flatworms.

Because Morgellons remains a mystery disease, much more research is needed, said Koskela.

"Health care providers are shooting in the dark as to how to treat it. Antibiotics seem to help some, but if they are stopped, the symptoms come back," said Wymore.

More information about Morgellons Disease can be obtained at Morgellons Research Foundation, www.morgellons.org or OSU Center for Health Sciences at www.healthsciences.okstate.edu/morgellons/

Reporter Natalie Chambers can be reached at nchambers@themississippipress.com or (228) 934-1429.

Skin Disease Has Doctors Scratching Their Heads

Ailment Feels Like Bugs Crawling Out Of Skin

August 7, 2006
http://www.nbcsandiego.com/health/9644226/detail.html


SAN DIEGO -- A mysterious skin disease that feels like bugs are crawling out of a person's skin and leaving a trail of worm-like fibers has doctors scratching their heads.

It's called "Morgellons Disease,'' and it's caused by mysterious fibers that have no DNA or living cells but supposedly poke through wounds in the skin.

It's been the subject of debate between skin doctors, many of whom can't find any scientific basis for the ailment.

However, it feels real to sufferers like pediatrician Gregory Smith, who says Morgellons cost him his medical practice and nearly his sanity.

"We talked to each other and questioned our own sanity-- it seems as though some of this stuff was so odd-- that it just couldn't be real-- it just could not be real." Smith said.

Oklahoma State University researcher Randy Wymore calls Morgellons a real disease but admits there's no scientific explanation for it.

"This is not some sort of an insect. They don't look like textile or environmental contaminates that are just showing up that you would find in any sort of environment," Wymore said.

But many dermatologists such as Dr. Noah Scheinfeld of Columbia University dismiss Morgellons as simply a new version of a mental disorder called "Delusion of parasitosis."

He says the skin rash associated with Morgellons disease is made by the patients themselves because the think they are infested with some kind of parasite or they are experiencing a sensation of some kind of parasite in their skin.

The National Morgellons Foundation doesn't state how many Americans may be suffering from the disease but its website claims there are thousands.

Meanwhile, the Center for Disease Control plans to launch an investigative study of 100 people in Texas who report having Morgellons.

CDC investigates whether bizarre Morgellons condition is real or imagined

By Associated Press
Tuesday, August 8, 2006 - Updated: 03:32 PM EST
http://news.bostonherald.com/national/view...rticleid=151968


ATLANTA - Imagine your body pocked by erupting sores. The sensation of little bugs crawling all over you. And worst of all, mysterious red and blue fibers sprouting from your skin.

It may sound like a macabre science fiction movie, but a growing legion of Americans say they suffer from this condition. And now the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is investigating.

Some doctors dismiss these patients as delusional. But the condition - called Morgellons - has caused a small frenzy on the Internet, with hundreds of people pleading for help.

“Sometimes the government doesn’t want to panic people until they can figure out a definitive cause,” said Pat Boddie, a 62-year-old Alabama woman who said she’s had Morgellons for 14 years.

“They’re trying to figure out if this is going to be an epidemic. I hate to tell them, but it already is,” she said.

The CDC has been receiving as many as 20 calls a day from self-diagnosed Morgellons patients. The agency has been urged to investigate by, among others, U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California.

“We’re going into this with an open mind,” said Dan Rutz, spokesman for a CDC Morgellons task force that began meeting in June.

But so far there is no evidence of an infectious agent, and health officials say there is not yet enough evidence even to call it a disease.

People claiming to have Morgellons report a wide variety of symptoms, ranging from joint pain to irregular bowel movements. But most describe crawling sensations along the skin, sores, fatigue, “brain fog,” and the appearance of small or microscopic fibers on or under the skin.

Some say they’ve suffered for decades, but the syndrome did not get a name until 2002, when the ’Morgellons’ was selected by Mary Leitao, a South Carolina woman who founded the Morgellons Research Foundation.

It came from a 1674 medical paper that described symptoms somewhat like Morgellons, Leitao said. “I never expected it (the name) to stick,” she said.

Leitao’s organization has become a leading source of information and research advocacy, but it too has become controversial.

Last week, at least three of the eight members of the organization resigned over disagreements with Leitao, the executive director, about how she’s been running the foundation. One member - the board’s chairman - sent a letter to the U.S. Internal Revenue Service, saying Leitao had failed to produce requested financial records and he voiced suspicions of financial impropriety.

Another board member who resigned, Dr. Greg Smith, a Gainesville, Ga., pediatrician, had recently posted a donations-soliciting letter for the foundation on an Internet site frequented by Morgellons patients. Last week, he posted a retraction.

“I cannot in good faith ask anyone to contribute to the foundation,” Smith wrote.

Leitao described the controversy as “a power struggle” and said she’s done nothing illegal.

Also resigning from the organization was Randy Wymore, an Oklahoma State University assistant professor of pharmacology. He was the organization’s director of research.

Wymore had initiated the relationship last year. But because of the in-fighting he said he decided to distance himself. “The research I’m doing is not affected by this,” Wymore added.

Until the CDC task force, Wymore was seen as the most reputable scientist to research Morgellons, although he was trained in molecular biology, not clinical disease or fibrous materials.

He recruited two Oklahoma State faculty physicians. They tweezed fibers from beneath the skin of some Morgellons patients who visited the Oklahoma State Center for Health Sciences in Tulsa in February, Wymore said, and sent those samples to the Tulsa Police Department’s forensic laboratory.

The police checked the samples against carpet and clothing fibers and other materials, and conducted chemical analyses and other tests. Nothing matched, said Mark Boese, the police lab’s director.

“How it is being produced, I don’t know,” Boese said. He theorized the fibers could be produced by human hair follicles that somehow encapsulated pollutants processed by the body.

Some doctors believe Morgellons is produced by the mind, not the body.

“I think of Morgellons as a piece of a larger phenomenon - delusional parasitosis,” said Dr. Annette Matthews, a psychiatrist at the Oregon Health & Science University in Portland.

Delusional parasitosis is a psychosis in which sufferers believe they are infected with parasites. Often the patients have a real-life problem with scabies, lice, or some other tiny attackers, but then imagine they are continuing to plague them, Matthews said.

Asked about reports of multiple Morgellons cases within a family, Matthews said delusions are transmissible - the psychiatric term is ’folie a deux,’ for instances in which people come to share a delusion.

Some people will biopsy themselves, or seek large quantities of antibiotics, herbal remedies, industrial bug killers and other expensive and potentially harmful treatments, she said.

The CDC’s Rutz said there may be several subgroups among the people who identify themselves as Morgellons sufferers. One group may have delusional parasitosis, but another may have something else.

The 12-person CDC task force includes two pathologists, a toxicologist, an ethicist, a mental health expert and specialists in infectious, parasitic, environmental and chronic disease. The group is developing a case definition of Morgellons.

It’s impossible to say how many people have Morgellons without a commonly accepted way to define it. The Morgellons Research Foundation believes the number is at least 5,500, based on the number of families registered with the organization’s Web site.

Hopefully, a CDC case definition will lead some physicians to stop treating Morgellons patients like they’re crazy, said Smith, the Georgia pediatrician and a Morgellons sufferer.

“A lot of physicians think that if it’s not in the textbooks, it’s not real,” said Smith, who said a fiber once slid across his eyeball and then burrowed in.

Verna Gallagher, 48, said she’s been seeing a dermatologist for nearly a year. “(But) he doesn’t believe in Morgellons. He said ’That’s not a real thing,”’ said Gallagher, of Roseville, Calif., near Sacramento.

But while her doctor dismisses the fibers as lint, Gallagher says he is concerned that she may become suicidal. “I cry, and he says I have to live my life” and tells here to write down things that she likes to do.

Meanwhile, she says she is plagued by tiny dark specks and fibers that infest her house. She’s paid for exterminators, taken antidepressants, bathed in Borax and spent hundreds on vitamins, garlic pills and other potential remedies.

“Nothing’s helped,” she said.

Bizarre Morgellons condition: Real or imagined

CDC investigates ailment marked by red and blue fibers in skin, sores

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14251131/


ATLANTA - Imagine your body pocked by erupting sores. The sensation of little bugs crawling all over you. And worst of all, mysterious red and blue fibers sprouting from your skin.

It may sound like a macabre science fiction movie, but a growing legion of Americans say they suffer from this condition. And now the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is investigating.

Some doctors dismiss these patients as delusional. But the condition — called Morgellons — has caused a small frenzy on the Internet, with hundreds of people pleading for help.

"Sometimes the government doesn't want to panic people until they can figure out a definitive cause," said Pat Boddie, a 62-year-old Alabama woman who said she's had Morgellons for 14 years.

"They're trying to figure out if this is going to be an epidemic. I hate to tell them, but it already is," she said.

The CDC has been receiving as many as 20 calls a day from self-diagnosed Morgellons patients. The agency has been urged to investigate by, among others, U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California.

"We're going into this with an open mind," said Dan Rutz, spokesman for a CDC Morgellons task force that began meeting in June.

But so far there is no evidence of an infectious agent, and health officials say there is not yet enough evidence even to call it a disease.

People claiming to have Morgellons report a wide variety of symptoms, ranging from joint pain to irregular bowel movements. But most describe crawling sensations along the skin, sores, fatigue, "brain fog" and the appearance of small or microscopic fibers on or under the skin.

Some say they've suffered for decades, but the syndrome did not get a name until 2002, when the "Morgellons" was selected by Mary Leitao, a South Carolina woman who founded the Morgellons Research Foundation.

It came from a 1674 medical paper that described symptoms somewhat like Morgellons, Leitao said. "I never expected it (the name) to stick," she said.

In-fighting on organization's board
Leitao's organization has become a leading source of information and research advocacy, but it too has become controversial.

Last week, at least three of the eight members of the organization resigned over disagreements with Leitao, the executive director, about how she's been running the foundation. One member — the board's chairman — sent a letter to the U.S. Internal Revenue Service, saying Leitao had failed to produce requested financial records and he voiced suspicions of financial impropriety.

Another board member who resigned, Dr. Greg Smith, a Gainesville, Ga., pediatrician, had recently posted a donations-soliciting letter for the foundation on an Internet site frequented by Morgellons patients. Last week, he posted a retraction.

"I cannot in good faith ask anyone to contribute to the foundation," Smith wrote.

Leitao described the controversy as "a power struggle" and said she's done nothing illegal.

Also resigning from the organization was Randy Wymore, an Oklahoma State University assistant professor of pharmacology. He was the organization's director of research.

Wymore had initiated the relationship last year. But because of the in-fighting he said he decided to distance himself. "The research I'm doing is not affected by this," Wymore added.

Until the CDC task force, Wymore was seen as the most reputable scientist to research Morgellons, although he was trained in molecular biology, not clinical disease or fibrous materials.

Forensics lab examines fibers
He recruited two Oklahoma State faculty physicians. They tweezed fibers from beneath the skin of some Morgellons patients who visited the Oklahoma State Center for Health Sciences in Tulsa in February, Wymore said, and sent those samples to the Tulsa Police Department's forensic laboratory.

The police checked the samples against carpet and clothing fibers and other materials, and conducted chemical analyses and other tests. Nothing matched, said Mark Boese, the police lab's director.

"How it is being produced, I don't know," Boese said. He theorized the fibers could be produced by human hair follicles that somehow encapsulated pollutants processed by the body.

Mind or body?
Some doctors believe Morgellons is produced by the mind, not the body.

"I think of Morgellons as a piece of a larger phenomenon — delusional parasitosis," said Dr. Annette Matthews, a psychiatrist at the Oregon Health & Science University in Portland.

Delusional parasitosis is a psychosis in which sufferers believe they are infected with parasites. Often the patients have a real-life problem with scabies, lice, or some other tiny attackers, but then imagine they are continuing to plague them, Matthews said.

Asked about reports of multiple Morgellons cases within a family, Matthews said delusions are transmissible, the psychiatric term is "folie a deux," for instances in which people come to share a delusion.

Some people will biopsy themselves, or seek large quantities of antibiotics, herbal remedies, industrial bug killers and other expensive and potentially harmful treatments, she said.

The CDC's Rutz said there may be several subgroups among the people who identify themselves as Morgellons sufferers. One group may have delusional parasitosis, but another may have something else.

CDC task force investigates
The 12-person CDC task force includes two pathologists, a toxicologist, an ethicist, a mental health expert and specialists in infectious, parasitic, environmental and chronic disease. The group is developing a case definition of Morgellons.

It's impossible to say how many people have Morgellons without a commonly accepted way to define it. The Morgellons Research Foundation believes the number is at least 5,500, based on the number of families registered with the organization's Web site.

Hopefully, a CDC case definition will lead some physicians to stop treating Morgellons patients like they're crazy, said Smith, the Georgia pediatrician and a Morgellons sufferer.

"A lot of physicians think that if it's not in the textbooks, it's not real," said Smith, who said a fiber once slid across his eyeball and then burrowed in.

Verna Gallagher, 48, said she's been seeing a dermatologist for nearly a year. "(But) he doesn't believe in Morgellons. He said 'That's not a real thing,'" said Gallagher, of Roseville, Calif., near Sacramento.

But while her doctor dismisses the fibers as lint, Gallagher says he is concerned that she may become suicidal. "I cry, and he says I have to live my life" and tells here to write down things that she likes to do.

Meanwhile, she says she is plagued by tiny dark specks and fibers that infest her house. She's paid for exterminators, taken antidepressants, bathed in Borax and spent hundreds on vitamins, garlic pills and other potential remedies.

"Nothing's helped," she said.

OSU prof says he's fighting ailment, not illusion

By NICOLE NASCENZI World Staff Writer
8/9/2006
http://www.tulsaworld.com/NewsStory.asp?ID...Ne_A9_OSUpr8396


He is doing research based in Tulsa to prove that Morgellons disease is real, not a figment of patients' imaginations.

Randy Wymore doesn't care if the mysterious disease he is researching cannot be found in medical textbooks or is not recognized by many doctors.

What he cares about is helping the people who battle a disease characterized by slow-to-heal skin lesions and unexplained microscopic red, white or blue fibers sprouting from their skin.

Wymore, an assistant professor of pharmacology at Oklahoma State University's Center for Health Sciences in Tulsa, said he is months past arguing with medical professionals across the country about whether Morgellons disease is a real condition or an illness created by patients' imaginations.

What he wants is answers to the endless questions surrounding Morgellons disease, a syndrome that can also affect the nervous system and brain functions. Wymore said it can cause numbness in a patient's extremities, joint soreness, chronic fatigue, a "brain fog" or the inability to think clearly, and symptoms that mimic bipolar disorder.

He wants to know whether the illness is contagious, what causes it and, most importantly, how to cure it.

Wymore points out that all diseases,

including AIDS, Ebola and SARS, were all new at some point and researchers had to create a body of scientific evidence to back up patients' claims.

A task force at the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention began meeting in June to investigate Morgellons. So far there is no evidence of an infectious agent, and CDC officials say there is not yet enough evidence even to call it a disease.

Wymore said he is not waiting for the CDC to tackle Morgellons, and the researcher will not have to work alone: OSU is investing resources in his project.

He will have a doctoral student to help him conduct epidemiological research this fall, and the OSU Foundation set up a research fund to help raise money for research, said Richard Wansley, vice president for research at the Center for Health Sciences.

There is so little research about this relatively new disease that "OSU can really make a difference," Wansley said.

Although Wymore has spent more than a year studying the disease, recent publicity about his research has generated a lot of telephone calls from people who report having Morgellons symptoms.

The call volume is expected to increase after ABC airs a "Primetime: Medical Mysteries" special that will focus in part on Morgellons disease at 8 p.m. Wednesday on KTUL, channel 8.

Wymore will be featured on the show.

OSU receptionist Lee Stidham answers many of the sometimes desperate calls from patients.

Stidham said the patients are grateful to have someone who believes their story and listens to their plight.

"I tell them, 'We don't have answers today; we may not tomorrow; but we will someday. Just try to hold on,' " she said.

Some doctors think Morgellons is produced by the mind, not the body.

Wymore, however, said the disease is not a delusion. He has taken samples from countless patients and analyzed the mysterious fibers and lesions, finding no explanation for the symptoms.

More than 5,500 families have reported that one or more people in their homes suffer from Morgellons, said Mary M. Leitao, executive director of the nonprofit Morgellons Research Foundation.

Leitao's 7-year-old son, Drew, has suffered from the disease since he was 2.

Several board members resigned from the Morgellons Research Foundation recently, alleging financial accounting problems.

Wymore, the former volunteer research director for the group, said he believes in the organization.