"These people will have like beads of sweat but it's black, black and tarry" : Morgellons disease

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Doctors puzzled over bizarre infection surfacing in South Texas

Sounds like the grimmest-sounding disease I've heard of since ebola.

But is it real?

Alba (Alba), Friday, 12 May 2006 18:21 (nineteen years ago)

terrifying

RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Friday, 12 May 2006 18:46 (nineteen years ago)

It's a fairly unprofessional (and ungrammatical) story whose main source on the illness is a nurse -- no quote from any doctor, specialist, CDC official, or anything of the sort -- so we can probably rest assured that no spaghetti will be launching out of our skin anytime soon.

nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 12 May 2006 18:52 (nineteen years ago)

Not that there's anything unqualified or unnoble about nurses or nursing, just that "this one nurse I talked to" is a pretty poor source for an epidemic story.

nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 12 May 2006 18:53 (nineteen years ago)

Wait, so this disease basically turns you into this:

http://www.supercoolstuff.com/items/pract/pics/PJ685.jpg

Dan (SURPRISE!) Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 12 May 2006 18:54 (nineteen years ago)

HI I READ DIGG TOO

JW (ex machina), Friday, 12 May 2006 18:58 (nineteen years ago)

Thank God I ain't drinkin' any Frenchie water!

Colin Meeder (Mert), Friday, 12 May 2006 19:01 (nineteen years ago)

I THINK HE HAS IT
http://www.comicstore24.de/images/products/01252.jpg

Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Friday, 12 May 2006 19:36 (nineteen years ago)

http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/7052/fly1bv.jpg

LOL Thomas (Chris Barrus), Friday, 12 May 2006 22:54 (nineteen years ago)

That wiki link learned me about some delusional parasitosis, like phantom woods limb caused by cocaine. Cocaine bugs! Something I can wish on annoying coke fiends.

Abbott (Abbott), Friday, 12 May 2006 23:07 (nineteen years ago)

It's a sign of the End Times! Run!

StanM (StanM), Saturday, 13 May 2006 03:30 (nineteen years ago)

That article reads like some sort of disease snuff fic mixed with a made-up epilogue to a summer horror movie.

Then again, there's ergot.

DOQQUN (donut), Saturday, 13 May 2006 03:46 (nineteen years ago)

South Texas? Black tarry sweat? OMG its that alien parasite from the XFiles! :0

Trayce (trayce), Saturday, 13 May 2006 04:08 (nineteen years ago)

Alomost all the stories lead back to The Morgellons Research Foundation. They even have a picture of Ginger!
http://www.morgellons.org/img/ginger.jpg
They have a couple of doctors on their pages.
http://www.morgellons.org/medical.html

Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Saturday, 13 May 2006 07:04 (nineteen years ago)

what a weir dlink to follow

www.morgellonsusa.com/

terrible web page

Mr Jones (Mr Jones), Saturday, 13 May 2006 09:02 (nineteen years ago)

i like how all of the pictures of what looks like pocket lint are framed without context and blurry.

lf (lfam), Saturday, 13 May 2006 16:12 (nineteen years ago)

Don't forget, it's black, black AND tarry.

Dan (P-Funk Syndrome) Perry (Dan Perry), Saturday, 13 May 2006 16:28 (nineteen years ago)

I just like how all the doctors come off sounding like conspiracy theorist cranks.

M. White (Miguelito), Saturday, 13 May 2006 16:36 (nineteen years ago)

Black gold, Texas sweat.

Abbott (Abbott), Saturday, 13 May 2006 17:55 (nineteen years ago)

xpost

http://www.morgellonsusa.com/

home page is hilarious:
(Note; I cannot figure out how to get rid of the stick man accident)

jinx hijinks (sanskrit), Sunday, 14 May 2006 11:39 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.alanapost.net/items/spiderman.jpg

INSANE CLOWN FOSSE (Adrian Langston), Monday, 15 May 2006 04:23 (nineteen years ago)

OMG ROFFLE AT WEBSITE!

Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Monday, 15 May 2006 04:30 (nineteen years ago)

lmao

JW (ex machina), Monday, 15 May 2006 17:17 (nineteen years ago)

five years pass...

Self-described sufferers of Morgellons disease say their skin is infested with mysterious parasites, and they demanded a government study. The Mayo Clinic concludes the symptoms are often delusional.

http://www.latimes.com/health/la-he-morgellons-disease-20110517,0,6267363.story

buzza, Tuesday, 17 May 2011 19:12 (fourteen years ago)

crazyman at 10:51 AM May 17, 2011
I am dealing with this mystery bug for 4 years. I know how I got it. I been to 20 doctor and I was proud to be from So. Calif until using county USC and try to get in UCLA to hear them laugh right in mine face. I don't have Morgellon but the mystery bug. The nest is in the middle ears. This is why they can't see them. I am classing it is a mite. For some reason they can pass through the ears drums. There was many of time I can feel something running on the ear drums when lay on the side. They jump out of the ears to drop in to the eyes. It feel like sand. Open up the eyes lids to feel something drop out like sand . They will also jump on to the hair. Shake the hair to feel like sand dropping out. I have done everything you think of. I believe the only fix is to get the ears drum crack open or put in ear stints. By put in ears stint the body gases will help them stop hatching. If I was a doctor that what I would do. The all problem is the doctor never played cowboy and Indians. Remember the past but look for the future. The cowboys use to get the Indians to make a smoke hut to get debug. Today the doctor have a out. It call the word Formication. By the Wikipedia say if feeling like ant on skin it is in your mine. But I can laugh at them.

If you do a search on the web for a 31 Saudi man mite in ears or A HUMAN CASE OF OTOACARIASIS INVOLVING A HISTIOSTOMATID MITE.

scott seward, Tuesday, 17 May 2011 19:18 (fourteen years ago)

crazyman otm.

scott seward, Tuesday, 17 May 2011 19:18 (fourteen years ago)

The House That Morgellons Built!

http://www.morgellonsexposed.com/

buzza, Tuesday, 17 May 2011 19:18 (fourteen years ago)

entry for the Helpful Captions 2011 Pageant:

Sufferers of delusional parasitosis believe their skin is infested with mysterious parasites.

I HAVE ISSUES (DJP), Tuesday, 17 May 2011 19:19 (fourteen years ago)

South Texas? Black tarry sweat? OMG its that alien parasite from the XFiles! :0

― Trayce (trayce), zaterdag 13 mei 2006 6:08 (5 years ago) Bookmark

...wow! (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 17 May 2011 20:03 (fourteen years ago)

this is the thing that joni mitchell has? :(

Mordy, Tuesday, 17 May 2011 20:06 (fourteen years ago)

It's the thing she thinks she has, yes.

\(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Tuesday, 17 May 2011 20:09 (fourteen years ago)

yeah there was a thing in the guardian abt this recently :( o joni

just sayin, Tuesday, 17 May 2011 20:12 (fourteen years ago)

four weeks pass...

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http://s2.images.proboards.com/cheesy.gifHi All, My three to four lesions are healing up rapidly and closed dark old one's(now bright pinkish)disappearing. I can't pinpoint how this triggered, but I did three things lately: I've been drinking around a glass of V8 (Low-Sodium) juice-2-quart bottle to which I slightly over-salted (2 tsp.) 2-3 times a day;taken 2-3 tsp. commercial health food store silver hydrosol liquid a day; 1/2 hr. bath with 1/2 cup Ultra SUN laundry detergent every 3-days.For the past 2-weeks I've also noticed no more of the black fibers(horizontal rungs) in scab material,and very few,if any at all,blue ribbons under the microscope.I also pin-pricked these 4 remaining tiny white-nodule bumps in my 1/2 inch lesion(almost totally cleared now) which had previously self-extracted white substance in the SUN detergent.I bled the tiny lesion nodules with the pin, however they are dissappearing with the healing.I hope this is all permanent.I've also noticed a 2-week lull in my local chemtrails.Take Care All.

gtforia estfufan (unregistered), Wednesday, 15 June 2011 18:36 (fourteen years ago)

seven months pass...

lol @ joni pic

http://www.latimes.com/health/boostershots/la-heb-morgellons-disease-joni-mitchell-20120125,0,314846.story

buzza, Friday, 27 January 2012 06:23 (fourteen years ago)

This comprehensive study of an unexplained apparent dermopathy demonstrated no infectious cause and no evidence of an environmental link. There was no indication that it would be helpful to perform additional testing for infectious diseases as a potential cause. Future efforts should focus on helping patients reduce their symptoms through careful attention to treatment of co-existing medical, including psychiatric conditions, that might be contributing to their symptoms.

buzza, Friday, 27 January 2012 06:35 (fourteen years ago)

seven months pass...

An update: http://www.thecehf.org/morgellons-disease-research-update-august-2012.html

Scientists Pursue Connection between Infectious Disease Afflicting Cattle and Morgellons Disease Affecting Humans

Progress moves forward as more research shows Morgellons disease has a physiologic (physical not mental) basis.

The Morgellons break through started with the research publication, Filament Formation Associated with Spirochetal Infection: a comparative approach to Morgellons Disease by Marianne Middelveen, a Canadian veterinary microbiologist and Raphael Stricker, MD. The CEHF first announced this news last fall when this peer reviewed publication appeared in the November, 2011 issue of Clinical, Cosmetic and Investigational Dermatology.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3257881

Why is this important?

In November, 2011, Middelveen and Stricker reported to have found evidence of a veterinary analog to Morgellons (MD). BDD, an infectious disease which has plagued cattle for decades, has fibers/filaments within their tissue and lesions that were recognized as a match to those found in the controversial disease known as Morgellons (MD) in humans. Studies on fibers/filaments from cattle with the bovine hoof disease and those found in MD suffers provided startling evidence challenging the dermatologists’ unfounded assumption that MD is a psychiatric disorder called “Delusions of Parasitosis”. Anyone who suffers from Morgellons knows how real these symptoms are and how disheartening it is to be told it is all in your head. Although the publication stated that the etiology (cause) of MD was not yet known, the findings by Middelveen and Stricker provided corroborative evidence to support a physiological and, perhaps, infectious etiology, lending a new direction for further research.

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Results of the Study …

These findings confirmed that filaments/fibers from both bovine and human samples were similar in formation at the cellular level and had the chemical and physical properties of keratin. The composition of MD filaments from humans was confirmed to be keratin by immunohistological staining with antibodies specific for human keratins. Fibers from three human patients were found to be biological in origin and are produced by keratinocytes in epithelial and follicular tissues.

An interesting side note is that researchers Middelveen and Stricker found filaments/fibers associated with MD beneath unbroken skin as well as in lesions, thus, demonstrating they are not self-implanted. This confirms previous research from Dr. Randy Wymore at the OSU-Center for the Investigation of Morgellons Disease.

Why is this important?
The original premise--that MD is physiological is holding up to the test of scientific scrutiny.

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MD is not Delusions of Parasitosis.

MD, like BBD, has a true physical cause. “ … Because BDD is a disease in which spirochetes have been identified as primary etiologic agents, and spirochetal sero-reactivity has been associated with MD, it is reasonable to assume that spirochetal infection plays an important role in MD... Further immunohistological and electron microscopy studies are needed to solve the mystery of Morgellons …” (Middelveen and Stricker). This points the way to the next step in our research.

Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 02:12 (thirteen years ago)


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