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luci
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Mystery disease hits South Texas
« on: May 13^th, 2006, 2:26pm »

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CAUTION: The following article is JUST GROSS, plus scary!
This is a WorldNetDaily printer-friendly version of the article which follows.
To view this item online, visit http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/ar...TICLE_ID=50195
*ANOTHER OUTBREAK!

Mystery disease hits South Texas

Bizarre symptoms: Black, tarry beads of sweat, lesions, fibers popping out of skin

Posted: May 13, 2006
2:05 a.m. Eastern

Š 2006 WorldNetDaily.com

To the concern of medical professionals already preparing for a potential bird flu pandemic, a mysterious disease first documented 300 years ago is spreading throughout South Texas.

Morgellons disease has not been known to kill and it doesn't appear to be contagious it's the disease's horrible symptoms that worry doctors.
"These people will have like beads of sweat but it's black, black and tarry," Ginger Savely, a nurse practioner in Austin who has treated a majority of Morgellons patients, told the San Antonio Express-News.
Patients infected with the disease get lesions that never heal.

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

It's those different-colored fibers that pop out of the skin that may be the most bizarre symptom of the disease.

Travis Wilson, a Morgellons sufferer for over a year, once called his mother in to see a fiber coming out of a lesion in his chest.

"It looked like a piece of spaghetti was sticking out about a quarter to an eighth of an inch long and it was sticking out of his chest," Lisa Wilson said. "I tried to pull it as hard as I could out and I could not pull it out.

"He'd have attacks and fibers would come out of his hands and fingers, white, black and sometimes red. Very, very painful," said Wilson.

More than 100 cases of the disease have been reported in South Texas.
"It really has the makings of a horror movie in every way," Savely said.

To make matters worse for sufferers, some doctors dismiss the disease as a delusion because the symptoms patients experience are so bizarre.

"Believe me," said Savely, "if I just randomly saw one of these patients in my office, I would think they were crazy too. But after you've heard the story of over 100 (patients) and they're all down to the most minute detail saying the exact same thing, that becomes quite impressive."

The outbreak's proximity to the Texas-Mexico border comes at a time when the issues of illegal immigration, border security and possible amnesty for over 12 million illegal aliens are being debated in the U.S.

The Wilson's spent $14,000 last year after insurance coverage on medical treatment for the disease, primarily on antibiotics.

"He was on Tamadone for pain. Viltricide, this was an anti-parasitic. This was to try and protect his skin because of all the lesions and stuff," said Wilson.

Travis, 23, complained of feeling like bugs were crawling all over him. "You can't sleep. It's freaky. So he'd go days without sleep," she said.

Austin resident Stephanie Bailey, who developed the lesions over four years ago, said she felt the same crawling sensation that Travis Wilson had felt. "The lesions come up, and then these fuzzy things like spores come out," she said. "You just want to get it out of you."

She, to this day, has no idea what could have caused her disease, and nothing has worked to rid her of it.

"They (doctors) told me I was just doing this to myself, that I was nuts. So basically I stopped going to doctors because I was afraid they were going to lock me up," Bailey said.

Pathologists have not been able to find any infection in the fibers pulled from lesions.

"Clearly something is physically happening here," said Dr. Randy Wymore, a researcher at the Morgellons Research Foundation at Oklahoma State University's Center for Health Sciences. "These fibers don't look like common environmental fibers."

Currently the only treatment that has shown success is an antibiotic. More than half of Morgellons patients have also been diagnosed with Lymes disease, but no other connections have been found.

"It sounds a little like a parasite, like a fungal infection, like a bacterial infection, but it never quite fits all the criteria of any known pathogen," said Savely, who continues to treat the disease others say isn't real.
Wilson says her son suffered to such a point she was sure he was suicidal.

"I knew he was going to kill himself, and there was nothing I could do to stop him," she said.

Travis Wilson committed suicide two weeks ago.

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Re: Mystery disease hits South Texas
« Reply #1 on: May 14^th, 2006, 7:09am »

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This reads on the bizarre side to us, will someone give an opinion?
I'm not sure I even believe it, though it comes from a creditiable source!
Anyway, sure won't be going to South Padre Island Beach anytime soon!
.........and we love it there! :yikes:

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Re: Mystery disease hits South Texas
« Reply #2 on: May 14^th, 2006, 10:18am »

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Just horrible! This is a yucky read, but thank you for posting it, because who knows where else it might crop up at some point. Since most doctors don't even beleive it exists, this is where the net becomes so important, in sharing information to give hope or even just an answer to those suffering from things they can't put a name to. How frustrating to have a doctor refuse to believe you.

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Re: Mystery disease hits South Texas
« Reply #3 on: May 15^th, 2006, 12:08am »

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I read the article and thought it was purely fiction. If it was real I'm sure we would have heard SOMETHING before now. We even heard about AIDS before it arrived in the U.S. Even the avian flu has been talked about for quite some time.

If there was a shred of truth to this disease, Dr. House would have found it and cured it already.

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Re: Mystery disease hits South Texas
« Reply #4 on: May 15^th, 2006, 8:08am »

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If you use a search engine, you'll find several references to Morgellons, and it's not just in South Texas.

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« Reply #5 on: May 15^th, 2006, 1:23pm »

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Dr. House, however, IS fiction. Wink

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« Reply #6 on: May 15^th, 2006, 1:41pm »

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgellons

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on May 15^th, 2006, 1:23pm, Rhune wrote:

Dr. House, however, IS fiction. Wink

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« Reply #8 on: May 18^th, 2006, 3:23pm »

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OK I googled this, and to be honest, I am not impressed.

I won't make a judgement on whether or not the disease exists, however judging by the evidence on Wikipedia and even the main websites supposedly fighting this disease, I, as a scientist, am skeptical.

Main Reason: The symptoms of this disease are manifested in a very visual way. (Black tar like sweat, lesions all over the body, long fibers coming out of these lesions etc) yet do a google image search. You get like 10 images, most of which are useless, and one guy with some stuff on his leg that looks remarkable like a fungal infection.

If this was so horrible, if 200 people in Texas have these symptoms, i would have expected a plethora of pictures, the ones that came up are useless, they are either out of focus or totally unidentifiable.

From what wiki says, i would lean toward the parasite causing delusions which, in some patients, may actually manifest physical symptoms, but I think we might need to call in mythbusters on this one, cuz it sounds kinda fishy

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« Reply #9 on: May 18^th, 2006, 3:44pm »

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The one website that wikipedia links to has quite a few photos.

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Re: Mystery disease hits South Texas
« Reply #10 on: May 18^th, 2006, 5:13pm »

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ok,I admit i didn't click on that link, so i went back and looked

this doesn't tell me much, I am talking about the gallery of images link

It looks to me like someone took some dried skin cells and put some thread and other fibers on top.

I want to see them ON the person. I want a hand covered with this bad boys. I want to see someone with the black sweat

if these people went to doctors, all this should be well documented.

These images would be great if it it was a highly studied disease, but as is, they prove nothing

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