This article says it all.
No doctor has actually witnessed the symptoms, they've just had patients report them. No blood sample taken from any patient has ever shown any infectious or toxic agent. And every sample of "mysterious" fibre ever tested has come back as being textile fibres.
Oh, and there's this...
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Leitao and other Morgellons activists say that, with the Web as a primary tool, they'll continue working to have the illness investigated as an infectious disease. Doctors interviewed by PM say this unilateral approach hinders objective analysis of symptoms they've seen for decades. Well, all symptoms except for one: Widespread reports of the strange fibers date back only three years, to the time they were first described online, at www.morgellons.org.
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