X-Files Disease is REAL?

[scaeagles]

Disease straight from the X Files

Morgellons disease is not yet known to kill, but if you were to get it, you might wish you were dead, as the symptoms are horrible.

"These people will have like beads of sweat but it's black, black and tarry," said Ginger Savely, a nurse practioner in Austin who treats a majority of these patients.

Patients get lesions that never heal.

"Sometimes little black specks that come out of the lesions and sometimes little fibers," said Stephanie Bailey, Morgellons patient.

Patients say that's the worst symptom — strange fibers that pop out of your skin in different colors.

"He'd have attacks and fibers would come out of his hands and fingers, white, black and sometimes red. Very, very painful," said Lisa Wilson, whose son Travis had Morgellon's disease.

Icky. And really sad.

[flippyshark]

Dear heavenly cripes, I caught some kind of nervous disease just reading about that! I hope they figure out what's up with this very soon. That sounds like tremendous suffering. I'm at least glad to see that it appears not to be contagious.

[xharryb]

I have but one reaction to reading this........ ACK!

[SacTown Chronic]

Can we smoke these tarry beads of sweat like hash?

[Gn2Dlnd]

It sounds really faky.

Say, did anyone see the SurvivaBall™ from Halliburton?

[SzczerbiakManiac]

"faky"?

[scaeagles]

If it is a fake, it is one hell of a hoax. Did you go the website?

Morgellons disease

[Gn2Dlnd]

Faky. Like alien abductions or crop circles.

All of the info presented on the Morgellons Research Foundation website seems half made up. Pictures are extreme close-up and don't have useful descriptions attached. A link to a story in "Popular Mechanics" (?!?) describes the fibers as all being common industrial fibers. The mp3 provided doesn't put the speaker's statements in any context. Who was she being interviewed by? The entire thing seems to be the pet project of Ginger Savely, a nurse practitioner, and Mary M. Leitao, mother of Morgellon's sufferer, Drew, and my nomination for Munchausen's Syndrome Mom of 2006.

[scaeagles]

I guess I can't say if it is or isn't real. I googled "Morgellons disease" and it is discussed all over the place. However, if I googled "Crop circles" I'd get more hits, no doubt.

[Gn2Dlnd]

I don't think it's an organized hoax, in the way the SurvivaBall™ from Halliburton is a hoax. But I do think it's BS, and appealing to people who need a medical malady.