Bay Area called hot spot for 'mystery' disease with sci-fi-like symptoms (Morgellons)

Mercury News ^ | 1/16/08 | Barbara Feder Ostrov

[NormsRevenge]

A major new study of the "mystery disease" known as Morgellons will be launched in Northern California, federal health officials said today.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Kaiser Permanente Northern California are teaming up to investigate the straight-out-of-science-fiction syndrome whose symptoms include itching, biting and crawling sensations and filaments or fibers reported to emerge from the skin.

[martin_fierro]

I’m Morgellon Like A Felon!™

[mnehring]

Ping, feeling itchy today?

[Scythian]

Yes I am, and it is really a drag, however, this is far more than a skin condition.

[bella1]

Another gay disease, perhaps. Seems to be a lot of that in the news lately.

[massgopguy]

More gifts from Nancy Pulosi’s district.

[donna]

Are all the sufferers homosexuals?

[L,TOWM]

Researchers are divided about whether the syndrome represents a real, physical disease or is a manifestation of mental illness.

Bay Area, huh? It is probably both: a real physical disease that is a manifestation of mental illness (queerism or faganoia or maybe even bi-pole-er disorder).

[Scythian]

The study won’t start though, it was supposed to back in 06, 08 will tick by and there will be no study, they cannot afford to let you know what it is, nuff said.

[FormerACLUmember]

The San Francisco Bay Area is one of the nation's hot spots for the malady..

The San Francisco Bay Area is one of the nation's hot spots for psychopaths, mental defectives, perverts, and other democrats.

[Jack Black]

Imagining insects crawling under your skin is a symptom of amphetimine psychosis, brought on by use of meth and/or coke. I wonder if that’s the cause of some of this?

The movie “A Scanner Darkly” is a production of the work of sci-fi author Phillip K. Dick, who had a serious speed addiction. It is a very sad movie, and begins with someone experiencing the crawling bug hallucination. The movie and book both chronicle the discent into paranoia and madness that amphetimine use ensures.

[NormsRevenge]

No.. this does not appear to be related in any way to preferences or persuasions.. it is a weird condition.

[Scythian]

No, it’s not a gay disease, and that’s BS, Morgellons is all over the US, in every state, it’s the same old misinformation like happened with lyme, you don’t have lyme unless you get the bulls-eye rash, well, they now know that is total bunk, very few infected have the bulls-eye rash, it’s uncommon given the data to get it, but that was the info at the beginning.

[firebrand]

filaments or fibers reported to emerge from the skin

Pictures, please.

[martin_fierro]

Have pity on me.

[NormsRevenge]

Folks can click the keyword and see a lot of past postings on Morgellons.. it is strange to say the least

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=morgellons

[NormsRevenge]

http://www.morgellons.org/

pics there.. click on Images or Symptoms

[I see my hands]

"Imagining insects crawling under your skin is a symptom of amphetamine psychosis, brought on by use of meth and/or coke. I wonder if that’s the cause of some of this?"

Users of meth and/or coke are very familiar with those symptoms. They would not mistake effects familiar to them with a mystery illness, IMO.

But who knows? If it's real.. yuck!

[zadox]

My guess is it is a real but rare infection. There have been reports all over the US. Here is a picture of the fulfillments said to emerge from the skin:

[CGASMIA68]

Most have the rash but never see it.......its not always a big red bulls eye......