Morgellons Disease

[Guest guest]

Hi:

 

Wondering whether anyone knows of this mystery

disease, whether its real or whether Chinese medicine

can or should address this.

 

Regards, Jack

 

http://www.wnd. com/news/ article.asp? ARTICLE_ID=

50254

 

WND OUTBREAK!

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

 

Fibers removed from facial lesion of 3-year-old boy

 

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.

 

Fibers removed from facial lesion of 3-year-old boy

 

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. "

 

 

 

 

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