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Doctors puzzled over bizarre infection surfacing in South Texas
Web Posted: 05/12/2006 10:51 AM CDT
Deborah Knapp
KENS 5 Eyewitness News
If diseases like AIDS and bird flu scare you, wait until you hear what's next. Doctors are trying to find out what is causing a bizarre and mysterious infection that's surfaced in South Texas.
Morgellons disease is not yet known to kill, but if you were to get it, you might wish you were dead, as the symptoms are horrible.
"These people will have like beads of sweat but it's black, black and tarry," said Ginger Savely, a nurse practioner in Austin who treats a majority of these patients.
Patients get lesions that never heal.
"Sometimes little black specks that come out of the lesions and sometimes little fibers," said Stephanie Bailey, Morgellons patient.
Patients say that's the worst symptom — strange fibers that pop out of your skin in different colors.
"He'd have attacks and fibers would come out of his hands and fingers, white, black and sometimes red. Very, very painful," said Lisa Wilson, whose son Travis had Morgellon's disease.
While all of this is going on, it feels like bugs are crawling under your skin. So far more than 100 cases of Morgellons disease have been reported in South Texas.
"It really has the makings of a horror movie in every way," Savely said.
While Savely sees this as a legitimate disease, there are many doctors who simply refuse to acknowledge it exists, because of the bizarre symptoms patients are diagnosed as delusional.
"Believe me, if I just randomly saw one of these patients in my office, I would think they were crazy too," Savely said. "But after you've heard the story of over 100 (patients) and they're all — down to the most minute detail — saying the exact same thing, that becomes quite impressive."
Travis Wilson developed Morgellons just over a year ago. He called his mother in to see a fiber coming out of a lesion.
"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 said. "I tried to pull it as hard as I could out and I could not pull it out."
The Wilson's spent $14,000 after insurance last year on doctors and medicine.
"Most of them are antibiotics. He was on Tamadone for pain. Viltricide, this was an anti-parasitic. This was to try and protect his skin because of all the lesions and stuff," Lisa said.
However, nothing worked, and 23-year-old Travis could no longer take it.
"I knew he was going to kill himself, and there was nothing I could do to stop him," Lisa Wilson said.
Just two weeks ago, Travis took his life.
Stephanie Bailey developed the lesions four-and-a-half years ago.
"The lesions come up, and then these fuzzy things like spores come out," she said.
She also has the crawling sensation.
"You just want to get it out of you," Bailey said.
She has no idea what caused the disease, and nothing has worked to clear it up.
"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," Bailey said.
Harriett Bishop has battled Morgellons for 12 years. After a year on antibiotics, her hands have nearly cleared up. On the day, we visited her she only had one lesion and she extracted this fiber from it.
"You want to get these things out to relieve the pain, and that's why you pull and then you can see the fibers there, and the tentacles are there, and there are millions of them," Bishop said.
So far, pathologists have failed to find any infection in the fibers pulled from lesions.
"Clearly something is physically happening here," said Dr. Randy Wymore, a researcher at the Morgellons Research Foundation at Oklahoma State University's Center for Health Sciences.
Wymore examines the fibers, scabs and other samples from Morgellon's patients to try and find the disease's cause.
"These fibers don't look like common environmental fibers," he said.
The goal at OSU is to scientifically find out what is going on. Until then, patients and doctors struggle with this mysterious and bizarre infection. Thus far, the only treatment that has showed some success is an antibiotic.
"It sounds a little like a parasite, like a fungal infection, like a bacterial infection, but it never quite fits all the criteria of any known pathogen," Savely said
No one knows how Morgellans is contracted, but it does not appear to be contagious. The states with the highest number of cases are Texas, California and Florida.
The only connection found so far is that more than half of the Morgellons patients are also diagnosed with Lyme disease.
For more information on Morgellons, visit the research foundation's Web site at www.morgellons.org.
Link: http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/metro/stories/MYSA051106.morgellans.KENS.32030524.html
WTF? Is this disease real or is that a bullshit site? Has anyone heard of this disease? I havent. Comment.
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oh no! spaghetti noodles are crawling out of my skin!
sounds like a load of crap to me
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The good thing about it is you can avoid having sex with them if you see the symptons unlike AIDS.
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There's pictures on the site provided. It looks pretty weird. I'm going to ask my Biology teacher on Monday, now I'm curious.
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nothing beats the ebola virus for sexyness 
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The article has as much reason to believe it as a UFO sighting. We can explain a lot in the body on the level for which investigation on this would require. This article has no investigation. They don't even state any material analysis for the black stuff (they don't look like common environmental fibers LOL) or patient diagnostics.
Total avoidance of step 1 and far out crap. Hmm. How much money have they made ripping people off, I wonder?
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"Clearly something is physically happening here," said Dr. Randy Wymore, a researcher at the Morgellons Research Foundation at Oklahoma State University's Center for Health Sciences.
Excellent doctor, I'll be needing some advice on some more obvious things later on, thanks.
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wow, sounds very painful :S.
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Ok i figured this for a hoax as soon as I started to read the symptons and the peoples first hand accounts of the disease. Then iI googled it and got over 30 thousand sites. Then I googled morgellons hoax and got only 495 pages. Then I went to webmd.com and couldn't find it.
I'll believe it when i see it,
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On May 13 2006 11:45 CyuntiyuL wrote:
There's pictures on the site provided. It looks pretty weird. I'm going to ask my Biology teacher on Monday, now I'm curious. URL of pics? I scrolled through it without reading it and wasn't able to see any pic.
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On May 13 2006 12:02 Footloose wrote:nothing beats the ebola virus for sexyness
Agreed, morbidly enough 
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wayyyyyy to sick for me...
I kind of don't believe it though, but if it's real, it's bad and veryfucked up T_T!
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lol
of course its real
i'm actually amazed some of you think it isn't
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people have written about morgellons in medical journals and such
go google it yourself!
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Doesn't mean they are real Day[9]. It could just be a very ellaborate hoax. Didn't your dad ever tell not to believe everything you read? some of those pictures are really gross.
The best thing about the disease though is after you've had it for like a year you have enough fibers to make a coat or something.
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On May 13 2006 13:52 Day[9] wrote:
lol
of course its real
i'm actually amazed some of you think it isn't
Yeah, with all that great scientific evidence to go with the extraordinary claim, who wouldn't believe it?
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This reminds me of some of those fake healer practices in Asia and Australia, where they pull big worms out of your stomach with only their hands :p
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ya but you can see these before anyone touches them servolisk. I think the fibers are alive and that is where the crawling sensation is coming from because they are wriggling their way out of your skin ^^.
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On May 13 2006 14:34 Sm!te wrote:
ya but you can see these before anyone touches them servolisk. I think the fibers are alive and that is where the crawling sensation is coming from because they are wriggling their way out of your skin ^^.
I would suspect that the fibers are feces from the parasite, or your body creating extra viens and arteries and then they are expelled through the skin (hence the blue, black,white, and red colors) would make more sense.
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Bill307
Canada9103 Posts
There's a reason for that. Lynch and a number of other doctors say they have sent samples to hospital pathologists, medical labs and state health boards, which have uniformly failed to find any sign of an infection. If there's nothing tangible to investigate, there's no reason to call in the big guns at CDC headquarters. The apparent success of antibiotic treatment for Morgellons hasn't swayed doctors like Lynch--mainly because pathologists have failed to find an infectious agent. "These scientists can recognize things down to the prion level, and viruses that do everything to evade detection," he says. Lynch's preferred treatment: the antipsychotic drug risperidone--which works, he says, in as little as two weeks.
http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/medicine/1662162.html?page=1&c=y
It sounds fake.
For the other antibiotics that appear to be effective, it could simply be a result of the placebo effect -- especially if the disease is entirely within the head to begin with.
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LOL at the pictures of the fibres. That's indistinguishable from hair.
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lol I just noticed your new sig bill, thats awesome.
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One patient, threatening malpractice, convinced the state medical board to investigate Lynch. Another warned he had a pistol in the glove compartment of his truck, Lynch says. "He told me, 'I'm going to shoot the next doctor who tells me it's in my head.'"
funny shit
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Belgium6772 Posts
fucking hell this creeps me out :/
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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.
Images can be found here
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On May 13 2006 14:20 Servolisk wrote:
This reminds me of some of those fake healer practices in Asia and Australia, where they pull big worms out of your stomach with only their hands :p
Thats not fake, i watched a movie about it in my bio class.
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it started out in texas, so...
this might well be god's revenge for electing that monkey guy over and over
let's pray
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Does this look fake?
Why would people make an elaborate hoax like this? It's also not funny. People are suffering from this and some of you are laughing and making jokes about it. Learn some compassion already.
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clearly this has something to do with aliens, astronauts probably brought it back with them
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Sweden33719 Posts
On May 13 2006 15:07 CharlieMurphy wrote:
One patient, threatening malpractice, convinced the state medical board to investigate Lynch. Another warned he had a pistol in the glove compartment of his truck, Lynch says. "He told me, 'I'm going to shoot the next doctor who tells me it's in my head.'"
funny shit
Uh, yeah, very funny..
Look, there's a LOT of arrogant and generally incompetent doctors - trust me-_- Not being taken seriously is not fun.
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On May 13 2006 16:04 sdpgposd wrote:
clearly this has something to do with aliens, astronauts probably brought it back with them
Haha. So who here lives in Texas, California, or Florida? Haha you will get owned soon.
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On May 13 2006 16:46 proTOSS[GER] wrote:
Where is Area51 again?
Lol...
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On May 13 2006 12:02 Footloose wrote:nothing beats the ebola virus for sexyness
Google for Marburg virus. It's real pro among them 
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It's just bullshit.
Well, basically it just sounds way too weird and there are "just" like a 100 cases.
Delusional paratisis sp? ftw.
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Australia4514 Posts
On May 13 2006 14:20 Servolisk wrote:
This reminds me of some of those fake healer practices in Asia and Australia, where they pull big worms out of your stomach with only their hands :p
We only do that to gullible americans.
Well... all americans
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