UPDATE courtesy of all4one:
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http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/medical/stories/MYSA072406.morgellons.KENS.1e13fade.html
"CDC considers Texas for Morgellons study"
Web Posted: 07/25/2006 12:50 AM CDT
Deborah Knapp
KENS 5 Eyewitness News
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is launching a study of Morgellons disease that may target South Texas where more than 100 people are suffering from the illness.
Cindy Casey suffers from Morgellons. Symptoms of the disease include lesions that leave scars, the sensation of bugs crawling under the skin, and fibers that pop out of the skin.
"Mostly black and white. Some of them were blue, and some of them were red. The whole area gets really sore and you feel some sort of crawling sensation around the lesion," Casey said.
Like others, Casey was diagnosed with delusional parasitosis — delusions of parasites. Most doctors do not recognize Morgellons as a disease.
However, one medical school is taking Morgellons very seriously. Most of the research on Morgellons is being done at Oklahoma State University in Tulsa. Doctors and scientists at OSU said this disease is real, and it's frightening.
"I am 100 percent convinced that Morgellons is a real disease pathology," said Dr. Randy Wymore, an assistant professor of pharmacology and physiology at OSU."
Cindy, do you know if a pathogen has been isolated yet, perhaps something in a fungal family?