Morgellons - Weird 'Alien' Bug Hits Thousands In US

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Morgellons - Weird 'Alien' Bug Hits Thousands In US

 

" I think we are a looking at a major problem that has been

unrecognized in humanity right now. " -- Dr. William Harvey, NASA

From Samuel Feldman

6-25-6

 

Over 1000 people in Texas, Florida and California are saying that they

are suffering from a nasty new skin complaint, but doctors are telling

them they are 'delusional'.

 

It is a weird 'bug' which sounds like something from an 'X Files'

script, but it seems to be real, despite official denials from the US

medical establishment.

 

No one knows what it is, and most people suffering from it are told

they are suffering from 'Delusional Parasitosis' by their doctors.

 

However, now there is mounting evidence that it is the doctors and the

US medical establishment who are 'delusional', not their unfortunate

patients.

 

There are currently over 1,100 hundred known cases in the U.S., mostly

in Texas, Florida and California of what is being called 'Morgellons',

and it is spreading.

 

Bugs crawling under your skin

 

Victims feel like bugs are crawling under their skin. They have little

blue fibers, and black specks and white threads coming out of their

skins. Under the skin, those fibers are connected to what appears to

be a cluster of fibers or in some instances, parasitic looking organisms.

 

One Morgellons patient Eric Roberson said, 'It's almost like they're

intertwined with your muscle tissue, "

 

" The lesions start out as bumps that are itchy, little round raised

bumps. The fibers are quite alarming. " said another.

 

" When you lay down, as soon as your head hits the pillow, your hair

starts crawling, " says Becky Bailey.

 

" It gives you the sensation that you have worms under your skin or

rats crawling on you, " says Miles Lawrence.

 

Another victim, Becky Bailey moved out of her Austin, Texas home and

into a trailer hoping to escape the bugs that torment her. " We ripped

out our carpet and burned our carpet and furniture and move out into

our R-V and they were still on me. "

 

A victim in California Dillon King committed suicide because he could

not stand the feeling of bugs crawling under his skin any longer. His

mother is quoted: " The hardest thing was seeing him just get worse all

the time " .

 

King's fiancée, Elizabeth Strong, says she thinks he picked up some

kind of 'weird infection', and that she's now beginning to show the

same symptoms. " It started as a small sore and kept spreading, " she said.

 

The Morgellons Research Foundation, which is campaigning for more

research to be done, reports that unexplained hair loss, as well as a

hardening or thickening of skin is also a common symptom and that many

people report lymphedema, profound fatigue, and joint pain.

 

Objects described as granules are often found associated with skin

lesions as well and several victims have had lymph nodes surgically

removed due to obstruction.

 

The fibers have been analyzed by FTIR (Fourier Transform Infrared

Spectroscopy) and have been identified as cellulose. Since true fungi

are not able to synthesize cellulose, the Foundation is currently

focused on the 'Oomycetes' class of fungus-like organisms. Apparently

'Pythium insidiosum' is the only Oomycete which has been documented to

cause human infections.

 

Skeptic doctors and the 'Matchbox Sign'.

 

Morgellons victim Jane Waldoch, a nurse for 24 year says she finds

fibers that look like crunched up bugs in her sheets every morning.

They come from the dozens of sores that cover her arms, legs, back and

neck.

 

She began collecting samples of what was coming out of her skin. She

thought it would help her doctors diagnose this bizarre and painful

skin condition. She was wrong.

 

Doctors took it as a sign that Jane was delusional.

 

" One of the hallmark clues to delusional parasitosis is what they call

the matchbox sign. I guess in the older days people would take their

samples in little match boxes to their physician, " she says.

 

Mary Leitao, a biologist and the executive director of the Morgellons

Research Foundation, said doctors have become " a brick wall. They have

their answer, and they aren't open to discussing the possibility they

could be wrong. "

 

" They are so smug and sure they are right, " she said.

 

Dr. Peter Lynch of the University of California, a dermatologist for

40 years, is one of the few skeptical experts who have been willing to

even talk on the record. Other have ignored emails and telephone

calls. He said " If there were a peer-reviewed study, with 15 or 20

patients who have the same exact thing in their skins, then maybe I'd

believe it, "

 

" When fiberglass curtains first came out, many people with skin

conditions were diagnosed with delusions of parasitosis (DOP). But

studies showed these patients had tiny (fiberglass particles) in their

skin. "

 

" Anecdotal evidence doesn't carry much weight, " Lynch said. " There are

many anecdotes of alien abductions, but that doesn't mean they are

true. And as for the pictures, you can see pictures of the Loch Ness

Monster on the Internet, too. "

 

Leitao and other members of the Morgellons Research Foundation are not

impressed with these arguments and point to the mounting evidence.

 

Californian microbiologist Jenny Haverty for example, has done

research on the mystery malady. Her findings point to something very

definitely physical going on.

 

" I accepted specimens from four different people in four different

counties in the Bay Area, and I looked at them very carefully over and

over again under the microscope, " she said. " The colors and shapes of

the fibers of each individual were very, very similar. "

 

She reports that tests on similar fibers taken those of several other

patients in the Bay Area show them to be tiny tubes of protein. But

how and why the filaments are formed remains a mystery for now.

 

Evidence of link to Lyme Disease

 

Evidence is beginning to mount linking Morgellons to Lyme Disease

which can be caught from tick bites.

 

Ginger Savely, a medical practitioner in Austin Texas, says she's

seeing more and more patients in her clinic with the symptoms. Quoted

in a local newspaper she said " Talking about it just sounds crazy, but

there are just a lot of things that come out of their skin. "

 

Savely specializes in Lyme Disease and believes there may be a link.

She says that about 10 percent of her patients with chronic Lyme

disease have symptoms of Morgellons. He theory is that people with the

tick-borne Lyme Disease have weaker immune systems, and may be more

vulnerable to the Morgellons infection.

 

The Morgellons Research Foundation says that forty-four people with

Morgellons have tested positive for Borrelia burgdorferi (Bb), the

bacteria which causes Lyme Disease.

 

They believe that an infection with Borrelia burgdorferi (Bb) may

alter the individual's immune system and allow this unknown organism

to become an opportunistic coinfection.

 

Ancient Engine of An Unrecognised 'Borreliosis' Pandemic?

 

A former NASA physician and epidemiologist based in Houston also

believes there is an infectious bacteria at the heart of this problem.

 

Dr. William Harvey is the current chairman of the NASA Education

Advisory Committee. He has documented more than 565 of these

(Borreliosis) cases in Texas and says 94% of (those with Morgellons'

skin lesions) have tested positive for the bacteria associated with

Lyme disease, or Borreliosis. " I think we are a looking at a major

problem that has been unrecognized in humanity right now. "

 

Harvey co-authored a published medical study concluding the bacteria

Borrelia burgdorferi, associated with Lyme disease, could be at the

heart of a widely unknown misdiagnosed infection.

 

In 2003 Harvey published his research in the medical journal Medical

Hypotheses. His article 'Lyme Disease': Ancient Engine of an

Unrecognized Borreliosis Pandemic', suggests that the bacteria

associated with Lyme disease is much more widely distributed.

 

" The yet-unrecognized form appears to have a broader clinical

presentation, wider geographic distribution, and vastly greater

prevalence, " Harvey wrote in his report.

 

He says research suggests it attacks the immune system in a specific

way rendering it susceptible to these unusual organisms. " The lab

tests that we do are predictably showing certain immune damage and it

is consistent from patient to patient to patient to patient. "

 

Harvey believes the bacteria is the bigger problem. But the so-called

parasites, which have yet to be clinically proven in a controlled

laboratory setting, do have highly unusual characteristics as seen

through a scanning electron microscope.

 

Harvey says some of the " filaments " have been confirmed as the

infectious yeast Candida tropicalis and that doctors can easily see

the physical symptoms in people who are branded " delusional. " He says

when patients complain that " fibers " are coming out of their skin

sores, physicians should investigate.

 

" All the doctors have to do is buy a 30X hand-held microscope from

Radio Shack and look, " Harvey said. " The facts speak for themselves. "

 

Microscopic bug called 'Collembolan' could also be involved

 

The 'National Pediculosis Association' in Boston, Massachusetts,

originally created to increase awareness about head lice and protect

children from pesticides has also done some research. They teamed up

with the Oklahoma State Department of Health to study Morg. They took

skin samples from 20 patients who claim they have the bugs, but were

diagnosed by their doctors as delusional. Researchers found

collembolan, a microscopic bug, in 18 of the 20 patients.

 

Collembola feed on algae, bacteria and decaying matter. They thrive in

wet or damp surroundings, and can be found under leaky kitchen or

bathroom sinks, swimming pools, and the soil of potted plants.

 

The report has been published in the journal of the New York

Entomological Association.

 

Who is really delusional?

 

So, it seems there is in fact a real bug, or even a 'willing

coalition' of bugs at large in the United States attacking innocent

citizens, despite official denials. It also seems that it is the US

medical establishment that is 'delusional', not their unfortunate

patients. Either that, or they are lieing through their bleached white

teeth. Or possibly both.

 

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