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.”
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I am on dual antibiotics : 1000 mgs 2x a day of Amoxicillin & 500 mgs 2x a day of Clarithomycin. I also take 3mg Stromectol 4x a day for the Morgellons. Let me state here very simply that I am not a medical practitioner in any way!!! My doctor does a series of blood tests every three months to see if he needs to make changes to my medicine. This disease is no joke and if you can look at the pictures and know that you have Morgellons, you need to see either a LYME LITERATE DOCTOR OR DR STRICKER!!! READ MY POST!!!
is there any proper treatment of this disses and how it is happened.
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Hi everyone! I have morgellons. I am a 50 year old, college educated, caucasian woman. I graduated with an A average in Business Administration. Before getting ill, I worked as an advertising executive for a period of over 10 years. The last time I was able to work was in December 2000. I don’t drink. I don’t do drugs. The worst I’ve ever had happen is a traffic ticket. I am not crazy. I am ill.
I see a doctor who specializes in Morgellons and Lyme Disease. Yes, I have Lyme Disease. (That is why I have been ill for such a long time.) Additionally, if I hadn’t gotten the Morgellons, I very well may never have been diagnosed with Lyme.
My doctor’s name is Raphael Stricker. He is located in San Fransisco. His # (415) 399-1035. He is world famous and our government knows him very well . He does not accept insurance due to all the restrictions that would be placed on him in the treatment of his patients. I will not sugar coat it for you, it can get expensive. Especially with airfare, specialized tests and medicines. But if you want to get well, you will go to see him.
In his patients with Morgellons, 90% tested positive with Lyme Disease. Just FYI, when you test positive for Lyme disease, you are entered into the CDC’s database. (This is really, really scary stuff and you don’t want to mess around with it. )
Also, Dr Stricker just completed a dissertation, along with a another specialist, on Lyme Disease that is being highly discussed today in the medical community. Furthermore, he was involved in producing a movie called “Under Our Skin” on Lyme Disease. I was lucky enough to watch it on a PBS station. I know that there are parts of it posted to Youtube. It would well be worth your time and effort to watch it.
Lastly, if for whatever reason, you decide to have your doctor test you for Lyme Disease, it must be sent to IGeneX Inc. as it is a Reference Laboratory specializing in State-of-the-Art Clinical and Research Testing for Lyme Disease and Associated Tick-borne Diseases. And if it does come back positive for Lyme, it will not be cured with a two week protocol of antibiotics. You must see Dr. Stricker or eventually it will kill you!
I hope this helps and may God bless each and every one of you!
My hearts goes out to all of you. From just reading a few of your stories and looking at the pictures I either have the same thing or something similar. For 15 years I have had sores on my right lower leg that will not heal, that itch and burn and like all of you the Doctor says it is caused from my scratching and I just wanted to slap him. None of the medication helped to relieve the itching and burning and nothing will heal the sores.
My story is different from yours. I was abducted and I know the sores are from radiated beings who go in and out of my body that cause the burning and itching. You can read my story and see my unbelievable photos if you Google, ” Paranormal Viewer.’ I also have entities that I cannot see who attach to my body and stink like Hell. Each smell is different and I have smelled thousands of them. I get rid of the smell by either spraying them with hair spray or wearing a nose plug.
What I do to temporarily heal the sores and stop the attachment I sit on the side of the tub and run really hot water and soap the sores really good and I use a wire brush and scrape as hard as I can. This is a very painful way to stop the itching but it is not any worse than the itching and burning and I do get relief sometimes weeks and sometimes months. I end up having to repeat the procedure. I totally believe the itching is because one of these entities is attached to the body. The only problem is if I get rid of them in one area I have a break out in another area. They go into my ears or head and make my ears ring violently.
I believe all of us are being attacked by these horrible entities and the only way to get rid of them is to first recognize they exist, do not keep their secret like doctors do, like governments do, like all people in power do. I believe if everyone wakes up all of our problems will be solved and these horrible entities will be on their way out.
No one wants to believe me but I know with all my heart they lay the Chemtrails. I also know they can cause indigestion, tinnitus, anxiety, leg cramps, heart attacks, and depression. The best way to get rid of them is to expose them.
Hot water as hot as you can stand it will prevent infection and if you do get an infection soak the area with hot water and Epsom Salts.
The CDC publishes a study about 5 days ago and per article; they do not believe Morgellons is due to an infectious agent or an environmental link. Your thoughts?
Ok, back in the winter of ’09 this scaley/rash like thing appeared on my chin. I was stationed in Northern Japan (Military). It was small at first. I thought I nicked myself shaving, but overtime it got bigger and bigger. I thought it was some form of acne or dry skin after I ruled out rash. There were little hairs in it, but i thought they were fibers from my pillow or towel, so I didn’t give it a second thought. Yeah, the growing in size was worrying, but being in the military you have bigger fish to fry before getting a “rash” looked at. It did spread to my foot, but I thought that was atheletes foot because it burned and itched like crazy! I never went to a doctor for this because I thought it was just something common. I started applying athlete’s foot cream to my foot and keeping it dry, and it got better. I also started applying lotion to my chin and keeping it clean.
When spring of ’10 hit it was still there, but my foot problem had almost fully cleared up. I started getting out of the dorm more, and exploring Japan with my comrades alot more. Amazingly my chin started to get alot better. Summer arrived and I was in the sun alot more. It never really healed all the way, but it didn’t get worse during the summer. When fall hit, and it started getting cooler (30-40 degrees) it got worse. When winter hit it was happening all over again. I was given orders to change station back to the United States in December of ’10.
When I returned to the U.S. I still had the problem until about Februrary of ’11. It just amazingly went away. I don’t know how or why, it just did, but I believe it has to do with the amount of sunlight we recieve and climate we live in. I haven’t had this problem since then, and it has almost been a full year since I had the problem.
I don’t have a dog and my cat is fine, so I do not think animals are the source. I suspect they are environmental and may be contained within a small area of the home. If contagious, someone with whom there has been close physical contact, but who has not visited the residence may provide a clue. May also be a genetic componet. Ever hear of gene-therapy? May be nano tech with a genetic target. Not as far fetched as I once thought.
Hi i am a master herbalist and RN ,with a friend who has this disease , she has suffered horribly with it, i was determined to help her , I have made a cream which has changed her life, she is “healing” ,the itching has subsided, the sores on her body are almost healed ! so i went further and made an ointment as well as a soap we are both excited about this i have prayed long and hard for a recipe that would help and ive found it !!!! with any questions my email is [email protected]
The way you stop this from spreading, is remove the depopulation programs by cia international research departments and using secret men’s clubs, freemason, elks, rotary, etc… to assist the abuse by mental illness fraud and embezzlements.
There are two ways to murder someone.
1. murder their natural lives and use them for discrediting and experimentation abuse
2. murder that eventually occurs due to the death of the constant death of the human selected by these cia researchers.
This disease may be coming from dogs and cats.