Morgellon's Disease?

[ashe]

What is so-called Morgellon's Disease? I first read about it in this article: Family Lives in quarantine with strange new skin condition (http://www.kobtv.com/snapshotskob/html/21431.html).

I tried to delve into it more but there is a lot of misinformation on the web about this disease... the most I could tell is that a few doctors are looking into it and that's about all that's really known, apart from some historical references to a similar-sounding parasitic affliction. (The Morgellon's foundation: morgellons.org (http://www.morgellons.org))

ashe

[ohwilleke]

The foundation link looks superficially legitimate, and there is certainly no doubt that there are non-fatal injuries out there which haven't yet been discovered, and if the news story is right, you actually have parasites crawling under your skin, so it isn't too surprising that this would feel like there is something crawling under your skin.

The fact that no one is claiming that the disease is fully understood or that they have a cure is also something that suggests its legitimacy.

[ashe]

Yea.. my conclusions also.. interesting.

The part that made me wonder about legitimacy is that I ran into another site (Marslife.com (http://www.marslife.com)) that claims lots of NASA coverups, evidence of life on Mars (including animals and plants) and makes a link between the "Frass Meteorite" (not really sure what that is) and the parasites in Morgellon's Disease...

Here's a page where the author explicitly links the parasite disease to the creatures he "found growing in the Frass Meteorite." (link (http://www.marslife.com/cathy1.htm))

Perhaps Morgellon's Disease, being mysterious, simply caught this person's attention...?

ashe

[Genghis_Khan]

Thank you ashe for calling attention to something I will no doubt fear for the rest of my life [unless scientists find out how one gets this, what it does, and how to end it].

Soo fucking creeeepyyyy. :down:

[Schneibster]

Until a pathogen can be determined, and a sample of the fibers sent for investigation, nothing further can be done.

[Demosthenes]

shudder