[Colloidal Silver] Very Strange - Morgellons disease

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" Carl Forsberg " <carlfors

Sat, 13 May 2006 11:11:46 -0700

Re: [Colloidal Silver] Very Strange

 

 

> Doctors puzzled over bizarre infection surfacing in South Texas

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> Web Posted: 05/12/2006 10:51 AM CDT

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> Deborah Knapp

> KENS 5 Eyewitness News

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> 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.

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> 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.

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> " 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.

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> Patients get lesions that never heal.

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> " Sometimes little black specks that come out of the lesions and

> sometimes little fibers, " said Stephanie Bailey, Morgellons patient.

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> Web extra

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> . Exclusive interview: Ginger

> <http://mysa.vo.llnwd.net/o2/audio/KENS/051106morgellons.mp3>

> Savely talks more on Morgellons

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> Web extra

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> . Morgellons Research <http://www.morgellons.org> Foundation

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> Patients say that's the worst symptom - strange fibers that pop out

> of your skin in different colors.

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> " 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.

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> 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.

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> " It really has the makings of a horror movie in every way, " Savely

> said.

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> 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.

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> " 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. "

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> Travis Wilson developed Morgellons just over a year ago. He called

his mother in to see a fiber coming out of a lesion.

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> " 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. "

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> The Wilson's spent $14,000 after insurance last year on doctors and

> medicine.

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> " 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.

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> However, nothing worked, and 23-year-old Travis could no longer

> take it.

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> " I knew he was going to kill himself, and there was nothing I could

> do to stop him, " Lisa Wilson said.

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> Just two weeks ago, Travis took his life.

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> Stephanie Bailey developed the lesions four-and-a-half years ago.

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> " The lesions come up, and then these fuzzy things like spores come

> out, " she said.

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> She also has the crawling sensation.

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> " You just want to get it out of you, " Bailey said.

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> She has no idea what caused the disease, and nothing has worked to

> clear it up.

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> " 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.

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> 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.

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> " 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.

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> So far, pathologists have failed to find any infection in the

> fibers pulled from lesions.

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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.

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> Wymore examines the fibers, scabs and other samples from Morgellon's

> patients to try and find the disease's cause.

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> " These fibers don't look like common environmental fibers, " he said.

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> 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.

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> " 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

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> 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.

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> The only connection found so far is that more than half of the

> Morgellons patients are also diagnosed with Lyme disease.

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> For more information on Morgellons, visit the research foundation's

> Web site

> at www.morgellons.org <http://www.morgellons.org/> .

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