X-Files Disease is REAL? - Page 2

Tramspotter · 05-12-2006, 05:54 PM

Not for the squeemish Link with pictures

Doctors puzzled over bizarre infection surfacing in South Texas

Web Posted: 05/12/2006 10:51 AM CDT

Deborah Knapp
KENS 5 Eyewitness News

If diseases like AIDS and bird flu scare you, wait until you hear what's next. Doctors are trying to find out what is causing a bizarre and mysterious infection that's surfaced in South Texas.

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.

CoasterMatt · 05-12-2006, 06:17 PM

Like something straight out of the X Files.

Not Afraid · 05-12-2006, 06:21 PM

Two Two Two threads about horrendious disease!

LSPoorEeyorick · 05-12-2006, 06:37 PM

Remind me to stay the F U C K out of south Texas.

Wait. I wouldn't be caught dead (or undead with fibers coming out of my wounds) there anyway.

This thing better not come to our state. It's creepy.

CoasterMatt · 05-12-2006, 06:38 PM

Um... most of the cases HAVE been reported in California

According to the site linked to in the original post,

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Distinct geographic "cluster" areas of this disease have been noted near Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Jose and San Diego in California - as well as near Houston, Dallas, Austin, and Round Rock in Texas.

Note: Although California represents 12% of the US population, 26% of all who have registered with the Morgellons Research Foundation reside in California.

Gn2Dlnd · 05-12-2006, 07:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Not Afraid

Two Two Two threads about horrendious disease!

And it STILL smells like BS. Put your thinking caps on and explore the website. If every news outlet in the world picked up this story (from the same, singular source) it still doesn't make it true.

LSPoorEeyorick · 05-13-2006, 09:05 AM

We're having Tom's mom research it for us. She has all kinds of medical research access. More to come later.

Ghoulish Delight · 05-13-2006, 09:48 AM

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.

Gn2Dlnd · 05-13-2006, 10:36 AM

Thank you, Gregory.

Now, on to necrotizing fasciitis, my favorite real X-Files disease!

LSPoorEeyorick · 05-13-2006, 10:57 AM

The medical madre says that it's definitely possible... that it's delusional parasitosis.

05-12-2006, 05:54 PM	#11
Tramspotter Show me on the bear. Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: LA Posts: 445	New epidemic?? Not for the squeemish Link with pictures Doctors puzzled over bizarre infection surfacing in South Texas Web Posted: 05/12/2006 10:51 AM CDT Deborah Knapp KENS 5 Eyewitness News If diseases like AIDS and bird flu scare you, wait until you hear what's next. Doctors are trying to find out what is causing a bizarre and mysterious infection that's surfaced in South Texas. 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.
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CoasterMatt BRAAAAAAAINS! Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: One Step Beyond... Posts: 8,802	Like something straight out of the X Files. __________________ Do you like my photography? Visit photosbymatt.tumblr.com to purchase prints!
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Not Afraid HI! Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 17,108	Two Two Two threads about horrendious disease!
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LSPoorEeyorick scribblin' Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: in the moment Posts: 3,872	Remind me to stay the F U C K out of south Texas. Wait. I wouldn't be caught dead (or undead with fibers coming out of my wounds) there anyway. This thing better not come to our state. It's creepy.
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LSPoorEeyorick scribblin' Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: in the moment Posts: 3,872	We're having Tom's mom research it for us. She has all kinds of medical research access. More to come later.
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Gn2Dlnd Parmmadore Jim Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Casita del Queso Posts: 3,810	Thank you, Gregory. Now, on to necrotizing fasciitis, my favorite real X-Files disease! __________________ Does anyone still wear a hat?
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LSPoorEeyorick scribblin' Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: in the moment Posts: 3,872	The medical madre says that it's definitely possible... that it's delusional parasitosis.
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