[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

'These people will have like beads of sweat but it's black, black and tarry,"

One of the things that happens with Ebola is that the people bleed through their eyes, ears, sweat blood. Sounds like people with Morgellens are exuding something like an oily concentrated blood through their sweat glands.

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Those are good points, Pete and Metmom. Pete, they're comparing the catastrophic fatigue from Morgellons to Lyme Disease. The fact that it's a rare disease, mostly found in California, Texas and Florida is good. However, Morgellons disease' rarity does not prove naysayers' contentions that it is a psychosomatic, hysterical illness.

Fortunately there's at least one person performing medical research on Morgellons disease.

Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences

Morgellons Disease

"Randy S. Wymore, Ph.D., assistant professor of pharmacology and physiology has taken on the research challenge as volunteer director of research for the Morgellons Research Foundation.

'Health care providers are shooting in the dark as to how to treat it. Antibiotics seem to help some, but if they are stopped the symptoms come back,' Wymore says.

In coordinating research efforts, he sees a research challenge and a chance to help.

'I am doing this partly from scientific curiosity, but also with real empathy toward sufferers.'"

Oklahoma State University Morgellons Research

A Times UK article today quotes Dr. Wymore:

"At the moment I'm leaning towards the possibility that some kind of neurotoxin may be involved in this," he said.

"There's clearly something going on. These people are not imagining this."

Times Online UK