Mystery disease hits South Texas

[Kat Kanning]

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


? 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.

[aries]

Ironically, Travis Wilson was a regular on another forum that I visit.

The disease really screws with your head, scrapes at your mental health...

[Tunga]

scrapes at your mental health...

Mostly because the medical community won't admit they haven't got a clue whats going on.

Therefore the patient is crazy.

That'll be 65 dollars please.

[aries]

scrapes at your mental health...

Mostly because the medical community won't admit they haven't got a clue whats going on.

Therefore the patient is crazy.

That'll be 65 dollars please.

Well besides that, you feel posessed. I mean, you feel things crawl under your skin, you secrete what seem like fibers from a shirt...

Travis was also a regular drug user, I wonder if any sorts of drugs might have a role in this disease...

[Tunga]

http://nematode.unl.edu/

[Tunga]

That's interesting Law. Tunga suspects a large number of survivors of the Gulf War Syndrome (from the first desert storm) brought this back from Iraq with them. Bio engineers have been mysteriously dying ever since 9-11.

Tunga doesn't like to eat Genetically modified foods for the same reason.

There is something "unnatural" about this disease or syndrome or condition whatever it really is.

[Kat Kanning]

I'd call having colored fibers sticking out of your skin 'unnatural'.

[aries]

I'd call having colored fibers sticking out of your skin 'unnatural'.

If some patient would live long enough before going insane or killing themselves, perhaps we could find out what was causing it.

It just creeps me out thinking of it.

[Tunga]

Several years ago UNH scientists released an organisim into NH streams that was intended as a cure for black flies.
The organism broke into the eggs of the black flies and destroyed them.
Haven't heard anything about that effort since it took place.

[Republidog]

I read a similar story once, looked to be some sort of nematode/parasite that was engineered to be used in cotton farming.

Seems to have got loose and infected people, I read the story of a girl who had all these same symptoms and believed it came from clothing that was created with this GMO cotton. Crazy thing about these organisms is that not even high heat kills them...

Not sure what I believe, but there is obviously something going on THEY don't want us to know about.

[Tunga]

This article speculates that the "fibers" in the Morgellan's patients are the same ones found in the chemtrails. I hope not because we've all been breathing that crap for several years now. 

http://www.rense.com/general71/mmor.htm

Tunga is more inclined to believe the story from Repubidog above. Except we remember it included GMO wheat also.
Even if a biopsy shows no signs of wheat alergy it might be a good idea for victims of this condition to stop eating it even just for a month or so just to be certain.

Also are you familiar with "Neem Oil"? It comes from India exclusively from the Neem tree. While it might not be a cure it provides relief from the little invisible buggy things that seem to inhabit the skin. Until you develop a tolerence for Neem oil, just a wif is enough to make some folks puke.
It's very strong. You apply to affected areas in the shower and add a few drops to the laundry.

[Kat Kanning]

Goes good in spaghetti too.

[Dave Ridley]

Welp if I get it and go suicidal, expect me to self immolate in front of a Federal building with a video camera rolling.

[KBCraig]

Welp if I get it and go suicidal, expect me to self immolate in front of a Federal building with a video camera rolling.

...while on the air with FTL?

[Kat Kanning]

Wow, a Dada Flambe.