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CDC Finally Begins Formal Investigation Into Morgellons Disease

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posted on Jun, 11 2008 @ 05:19 PM
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CDC Finally Begins Formal Investigation Into Morgellons Disease


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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is launching an investigation into a still-unexplained collection of symptoms known as Morgellons disease.

The condition known as Morgellons disease is characterized primarily by skin lesions that do not heal, as well as unexplained sensations of crawling, biting or stinging on the skin; the presence of foreign materials, such as fibers, on or under the skin; fatigue; joint pain; memory loss; mental confusion and vision changes.
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posted on Jun, 11 2008 @ 05:19 PM
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Jeez...About Freakin' time! Some of the idiotic excuses I've heard from some of these so-called "experts", like this being "all in the patients head" have been beyond disgusting.

Nobody knows what the heck this disease is or its causes...But it has wreaked havoc on its victims!

Hopefully this study provides some answers FINALLY...


Because doctors do not know what causes the symptoms, some have questioned whether it is a real physical condition. According to the Morgellons Research Foundation, many Morgellons patients are falsely "diagnosed with a common medical label, Delusions of Parasitosis, the basic tenet being this is a psychiatric illness with the presumption of a purely delusional 'parasite infestation.'"

The CDC investigation will involve patients enrolled in the Kaiser Permanente Northern California Health Plan who saw medical attention for Morgellons-like symptoms within an 18-month time period. It will also involve cooperation from the Armed Forces Pathology Institute, and is expected to last for at least one year.



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posted on Jun, 11 2008 @ 09:18 PM
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Good to see they are finally launching a proper investigation into Morgellon's it sounds like a terrible disease, and would be made far worse by people thinking it was all in your head.

I wonder why the Armed forces pathology is getting involved though? Surely it would be normally done medical institutes in a research type of scenario.



posted on Jun, 11 2008 @ 09:51 PM
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Hope it produces more results than the last 'investigation'.
Aug. 08, 2006 - CDC Investigating Mysterious 'Morgellons' Skin Rash

This was announced again back in January.
Jan. 18, 2008 - CDC to Investigate Morgellons Mystery Disease

This is a Rense post but I think many would find the article to be enlightening: Link


For reasons they have apparently chosen not to make public, the CDC has therefore deliberately decided to ignore, negate and suppress the considerable body of nearly three years worth of ongoing, highly qualified field work by others outside the CDC nexus. They have chosen instead to form an unholy alliance with the largest HMO/insurer in the world, Kaiser Permanente.



Great. Just what is needed, the CDC in partnership with a powerhouse health insurer. We all know how interested a health provider will be in classifying a new disease which affects thousands of people. They will undoubtedly make a mockery of this investigation.



By marginalizing professional research that has already taken place during the CDC's long and curious absence from the Morgellons issue, they are now seen to be suddenly setting themselves up as the sole judge of any consequence in the public eye. This is a very dangerous and powerful position for an organization with a track record like the CDC to be allowed to place itself in. Morgellons sufferers had best beware.

In what is probably the biggest conflict of interest since convicted felon Henry Blodget was hired as a Wall Street securities analyst, the Kaiser "fox" is now being given the keys to the CDC's hen house. In return, it appears that the CDC expects the obliging chickens to gratefully invite him in for dinner.

It may well be that the CDC announcement concerning the much ballyhooed Morgellons research grant is little more than self-serving bureaucratic sound and fury...or it may be that a much darker and deadlier game is being played. A cursory study of the CDC's woeful lack of past interaction with the Morgellons community will open a Pandora's box of questions that beg answers .

There is little doubt that the CDC knows how to play the political game. Based on past experience, many Morgies are of the opinion that the Kaiser "study" is little more than under-funded pork, a shuck, a jive, political chicanery and, at worst, a cynical lip service designed to throw a fog over the clever methodology of how bureaucracies with something to hide engage in issue assassination.

So why, we might wonder, would the Mandarins of the CDC engage in such transparently duplicitous behavior? Why would they spend hard earned tax dollars for information that already exists and could be had with a simple conference call or two? Well, the answer is at once simple and yet Byzantine.

It is germane to note that by their own malfeasant admission, over the last eight years the CDC has received thousands upon thousands of requests for help from Morgellons victims. All of these pleas, until now, fell upon deaf ears. Not one red cent was ever spent to determine what it was that was taking place not only across America but around the world as well. Meanwhile the CDC has spent millions of taxpayer dollars on an unending parade of fizzled "non-event" epidemics that have come and gone during that same time frame. A number of these high dollar non-event epidemics affected less than a dozen people across the country while others never materialized at all!


That being a personal opinion piece, I can't vouch for it's accuracy but it does paint a troubling picture of the CDC with regard to Morgellons.

If I were a Morgellons victim, I would most definitely NOT pin my hopes upon the CDC. There is much promising research being done by highly qualified independant researchers and if any remedy is to be found, it will undoubtedly be discovered by these outside sources.



posted on Jun, 11 2008 @ 09:57 PM
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Originally posted by Shere Khaan
Good to see they are finally launching a proper investigation into Morgellon's it sounds like a terrible disease, and would be made far worse by people thinking it was all in your head.

I wonder why the Armed forces pathology is getting involved though? Surely it would be normally done medical institutes in a research type of scenario.


I thought the same thing about why is the Armed Forces involved? That is a bit odd but, sadly, believable.



posted on Jun, 11 2008 @ 10:00 PM
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I have all those symptons but the skin lesions are psoriasis, the joint pain from work and a little too much in the gut, vision changes - not sure why it gets cloudy from time to time, memory loss - yeah. Holy cow!



posted on Jun, 12 2008 @ 01:57 PM
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Originally posted by stikkinikki
I have all those symptons but the skin lesions are psoriasis, the joint pain from work and a little too much in the gut, vision changes - not sure why it gets cloudy from time to time, memory loss - yeah. Holy cow!


You should have your blood sugar checked. The first symptom of diabetes type 2 is usually the cloudy vision you mention.




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