May 18, 2004 By Jon Hanian
Boise, ID - Nampa resident Rebecca Hewitt doesn't like talking about it because she usually starts crying when she does.
..... Rebecca's hair started falling out in patches. Her joints started swelling. She started getting lesions on her skin. "I was breaking out in boils." But perhaps the most unnerving part -- mysterious particles she calls parasites with fiber -like filaments started appearing creating stinging and crawling sensations underneath her skin. "It is like a cottony fiber on your skin. It is really hard to explain. You get scared. You are afraid that it is going to take your life."
So Rebecca went to nine different doctors for help. Most of them diagnosed her as delusional. "So then you have this whole issue of 'don't tell anyone', you know. It is very emotional and it is a very mental disease because no one will listen to you." But it is not just people in the Treasure Valley who are complaining about this thing. In the eastern Idaho rural farming community of Preston, we found another individual who claims to be afflicted by the same parasite.
"It all sounds crazy and it is crazy," says 44-year-old Daryl Crockett, a carpenter who says he is unable to work because of chronic fatigue and other neurological symptoms. He says he suffers from similar lesions on his body and swelling in his lower legs and joints. "They are just full of parasites."
He showed us numerous tiny specks on his skin. The specks are hard to see until you zoom in. Crockett believes they are a form of parasite associated with his symptoms. Crockett showed us a vial full of what he believes are the parasites infecting his body. "This is just a fraction of them. I could have brought a whole jug full........"
Ummmm.....former NASA physician?.....on the forefront of a startling new medical discovery?.......feels like bugs in the skin?......can we say all together "State Quarantine?"
Yuk.
Oh my...what could that be about??? Tin foil//Con-trails??
Arrggh. I'm itching just thinking about that story!
Westcoastgal, the way they describe these fibers reminds me of that stuff that was in your cereal box!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1136902/posts?page=859#859
Holy crap!
What we do know is that currently 729 people have reported these symptoms to us
I was confused at first because what I saw were not scabies. They were fibers, bundles of fibers. I guess you could describe them as fuzz balls."
But Leitao has found a former noted NASA physician and epidemiologist who believes these people are not only telling the truth but maybe on the fore front of a startling new medical discovery. That part of the story tomorrow.
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