The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced today that it is launching a study to learn about an unexplained condition that causes people to feel as if they have foreign substances growing from their bodies.
People with the condition, referred to as Morgellons disease, say they have fibers and other inorganic material growing out of their skin.
“We earnestly want to learn more about this unexplained illness, which affects the lives of those who suffer from it,” said Dr. Michele Pearson, principal investigator leading the study for the CDC, in a press release. “Those who suffer have questions, and we want to help them.”
“We have a team of epidemiologists, laboratorians and pathologists to carry out the study,” Pearson said.
The study will be conducted in conjunction with Kaiser Permanente’s Northern California Division of Research. For more information, CLICK HERE to visit the CDC’s Unexplained Dermopathy Web site.
In 2006, a number of Morgellons sufferers told ABC News in interviews that when they consulted doctors, they received diagnoses they called wrong or dismissive. Brandi Koch, the wife of former Major League Baseball player Billy Koch, said that she felt as if she were living in a horror movie, claiming she had colored fibers coming out of her skin.
Koch, of Clearwater Beach, Fla., said that her life was good until one day in the shower when she noticed something strange — tiny fibers running through her skin.
“The fibers look like hair, and they’re different colors,” Koch said.
Koch said she knows that what she experienced “sounds crazy,” but it’s true. “If I had a family member call me up and say, ‘I have this stuff,’ I’d say, ‘I’m sending a straitjacket over. You need some help,'” she said.
Anne Dill described a similar condition. Looking at Dill’s life in Florida, she seemed to be living the American dream — her three daughters excelled in sports and were straight-A students.
But life in the Dill household was far from idyllic. Anne’s 40-year-old husband, Tom, died in January 2006, and she believes his death was due to a contagious illness that has infected her entire family.
Dill described her family’s skin: “There’s this fibrous material. It’s in layers.” Dill said the skin on their hands was particularly bad, very swollen and itchy, and said it felt as if bugs were crawling underneath the skin.
Consulting Doctors
Dr. Greg Smith of Gainesville, Ga., has been a pediatrician for the past 30 years. He claimed that a fiber was coming out of his big toe, and he had video footage to prove it.
“It felt like somebody stuck a pin in my toe and wiggled it, and it just continued to hurt,” Smith told ABC News in 2006.
He said he never thought he had bugs. “I’ve certainly had those crawling sensations, and the fibers which come out of the skin are really bizarre, and really odd.”
Smith was handed over to a hospital psychiatrist when he went to the emergency room complaining of a fiber in his eye. He admits that he, too, would be skeptical if a patient came to him with the same story.
“I would wonder if they’d taken their medicine that day. It makes no sense. It’s totally bizarre. It’s something that — just telling the story is so outlandish on the face of it — that no one would believe it,” Smith said. Dill’s doctor told her to stop scratching, even though many of her sores were in places she could not reach.
Koch went to the Mayo Clinic, where doctors didn’t believe that the fibers she’d brought them had grown from her body.
“I saw the infectious disease doctor, and I showed him some samples that I had and he snickered,” she said. “I can’t go through another doctor blowing me off or looking at me like I’m crazy. I know I’m not.”
Dr. Vincent DeLeo, chief of dermatology at New York’s St. Lukes-Roosevelt Medical Center, weighed in on what he’d say to someone who came to him with this condition. “I don’t think this is any different than many patients I’ve seen who have excoriations and believe that there is something in their skin causing this,” he told ABC News in 2006.
DeLeo said the open lesions were most likely a result of scratching the skin.
Relying on Your Own Research
But biologist Mary Leitao refused to accept the medical skepticism surrounding Morgellons.
Leitao’s son, Drew, was just 2 years old when Leitao noticed an odd sore on his lip that would not heal.
“He very simply said ‘bugs,’ and he pointed to his lips,” said Leitao.
Leitao never expected to find herself at the center of a medical storm. But when her son complained about the strange sore, the biologist, who once ran the electron microscope at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, did what any scientist would do. She took a closer look.
“What I saw were bundles of fibers, *** of fibers,” Leitao says. “There was red and blue.” Even stranger, they glowed under ultraviolet light.
Armed with research, Leitao took her son to a doctor at one of the country’s leading hospitals. He dismissed her tale of fibers and wrote to her pediatrician, saying that her son needed Vaseline for his lips and that his mother needed a thorough psychiatric evaluation.
Undaunted, Leitao began poring through medical literature looking for clues. What she discovered was a 17th-century reference to a strange disease with “harsh hairs” called “Morgellons.”
She named the strange fibers Morgellons disease and put the information on a Web site, Morgellons.org. At the time of her interview in 2006, more than 4,500 people had contacted Leitao, claiming they had Morgellons-type symptoms. The name stuck, and the disease was featured on the television show “ER.”
But do these fibers grow from inside the body, as Morgellons patients believe, or do they come from the external environment — a kind of lint — as the medical skeptics say?
Searching for an Answer
Forensic scientist Ron Pogue at the Tulsa Police Crime Lab in Oklahoma checked a Morgellons sample against known fibers in the FBI’s national database. “No, no match at all. So this is some strange stuff,” Pogue said in 2006. He thought the skeptics were wrong. “This isn’t lint. This is not a commercial fiber. It’s not.”
The lab’s director, Mark Boese, said the fibers are “consistent with something that the body may be producing.” He added that, “These fibers cannot be manmade and do not come from a plant. This could be a byproduct of a biological organism.”
Dill said she looks at pictures of her family and finds them unrecognizable. “My kids have to see not only their dad but their mom disintegrating, and that’s gotta be really scary.”
While they wait for evidence that they hope will convince the medical community to take them seriously, some Morgellon’s sufferers wear pink bracelets that say, simply, “Fortitude.”
Pictures of Morgellons Disea
Pictures can be viewed at the following location: Morgellon’s Disease Pictures
Hope you enjoyed the story and pictures of Morgellons Disease
PS: Don’t drink colloidal silver. You WILL turn blue eventually as the metal salts and ions are deposited in your skin. Silver is a “heavy metal”, and won’t leave the body once ingested. It is NOT good for you, regardless of what all of the quack practitioners and snake-oil salesmen say. Use your heads, people. If there was a cure, drug companies would have found it already to make an easy buck.
Turn blue if you like, it will PROVE to people that not only are you crazy, but also desperate and gullible.
You people are nuts.
Hey, that’s it! Maybe it’s a nut allergy!
The actual link for MorgellonsHope is
http://www.morgellonshope.com/component/option,com_fireboard/Itemid,223/
Just copy and paste
I thought I’d share this link on YouTube and maybe it can help. She cured herself. Silver Colloid.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcL8HvA7sME
Its from someone who has Morgellonshope.com..
If the page comes up not there, click on the “home” box and it will take you to the new site.
Hello,
I don’t have this problem but I have been reading everyone’s posts and I’m so sad for all of you. I hope and pray for a cure (tired of just “treatments”to make the pharmaceutical co.’s rich).
Note to thrival.. Hydrogen peroxide therapy has been around a long time and I’ve been using it. HOWEVER…using over the counter H202 is not good. It has harsh chemicals in it. You need to use FOOD GRADE H202 which can be purchased at a compound pharmacy or over the internet.
Take caution with Food Grade, because it is 35% pure. Don’t let it touch your skin, it’s too strong full stregnth.
To use: Fill a glass 12oz of filtered water. Using a dropper, add 5 drops the first time. Then 7 drops then 10 up to 14 drops per 12oz.
What a difference it makes!
Do research on Hydrogen Peroxide Therapy and learn other ways this can be beneficial.
Approximately in the years 2000 to 2002 my sister, Judy Stiles had under the skin filament like things with black parts on it. Her doctor didn’ t believe her. She is from eastern Ontario, Canada in the small city of Pembroke. Skin eruptions were possible by squeezing them out. The doctor did not want to see them. She started using over-the-counter products to try and rid herself of the problem. One frequent attempt was with lice shampoos but she never had lice. In 2003 she died from breast cancer. She has 6 children who are being well cared for by her husband. I think no one else in the family so far have been troubled by this problem. I wonder if it was like a lyme disease also. She didn’t like to complain about her symptoms. She was pregnant during the episode. I am very interested in morgellon’s disease and lyme disease. Angela Greenland (sister of Judy Stiles)
I researched Hulda Clark’s zapper to determine why it works, it’s broad spectrum and not frequency-specific, which means it’s better than Rife technology. What the zapper does is make hydrogen peroxide in the blood! It makes you tired because H202 is an oxidant, which means it causes aging, so you should take anti-oxidants while using it. Your own body makes H202 to fight off infections, but long-term, is not good. When lightening hits rivers, lakes & oceans it creates ozone that breaks down to H202, which is how God keeps them relatively clean of parasites. Once I understood this, I began adding H202 to water I used for DIY colonics (6 month colon cleanse.) The H202 is absorbed through the colon wall into the blood, faster than a zapper. I also added clay & lime to my enema water with the H202 to alleviate tiredness caused from mineral leaching. This method is painless. You just need to retain the water as long as you can, then evacuate. H202 from Walgreens is fine. This works for cancer, AIDS. I never had morgellon’s but it’s worth a try. Add some lavender, pine essential oil to the water too. Don’t be afraid to experiment. Most diseases are a mineral deficiency of some kind.
Colloidal silver is easy to make for pennies. What you need are two
pieces of silver wire (contact a refiner) and a wall transformer; 30V
AC works well (paper shredders use these), although I’ve a friend who
used a car battery. One uses higher V, the other has more amps.
Anyway, punch two holes about an inch or two apart, through a piece
of rubber or plastic hose, and stick your silver wires through the
holes to serve as a jig. Set that across the lip of a mason jar
filled with distilled water and the wires immersed, (although I’ve
used polluted lake water.) Connect the wires from your transformer
output to the silver wire nibs. (I found soldering a couple alligator
clips to the wires makes it easier.) Plug it in and let it cook for
about a half hour. The water will be cloudy. Decant/strain through a
coffee filter and store away from light. Keeps indefinitely without
refrigeration but darkens with age and exposure to light. Colloidal silver kills everything but saves the person. See:
http://www.colloidalsilver.org
Good Day to everyone,
I live in South Africa and would like to meet other Ms. sufferers. We need to do something about this affliction and I welcome any correspondence. Please do not bother me with crazy ideas such as aliens, conspiracy theories etc. This is indeed a serious condition which requires urgent and intense focus worldwide.
Please contact me on 27 11 482 6000 // [email protected]
Hello Cloverdale,
Please note that in my last post I have clearly advised you to take only a small qantity of vinegar, like one table spoon, mixed with a glass of water, after food only. Use a straw to drink the vinegar water mixture to avoid direct contact with your teeth.You can also mix a spoon of honey with water to make it tasty. Also do not drink it more than a week. In any case, do not drink or apply to your skin vinegar directly, without diluting with water. Better also to discuss with your health consultant as I have already told you.
With regards,
Bharathyeju