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Imagine having the feeling that tiny bugs are crawling on your body, that you have oozing sores and mysterious fibers sprouting from your skin. Sound like a horror movie? Well, at one point several years ago, government doctors were getting up to 20 calls a day from people saying they had such symptoms.
Many of these people were in California and one of that state's U.S. senators, Dianne Feinstein, asked for a scientific study. In 2008, federal health officials began to study people saying they were affected by this freakish condition called Morgellons.
Originally posted by JacKatMtn
This latest finding doesn't really settle it for me, and the article itself seems to point to mental illness while they still have a problem trying to categorize this...
The study cost nearly $600,000. Its long-awaited results, released Wednesday, conclude that Morgellons exists only in the patients' minds.
"We found no infectious cause," said Mark Eberhard, a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention official who was part of the 15-member study team.
The CDC is not planning additional study, however. The agency's expertise is in infectious diseases and environmental health problems, and the researchers saw no evidence of that.
"We're not mental health experts," one CDC spokeswoman said.
Originally posted by JacKatMtn
no definite answers, yet the article ends...
The CDC is not planning additional study, however. The agency's expertise is in infectious diseases and environmental health problems, and the researchers saw no evidence of that.
"We're not mental health experts," one CDC spokeswoman said.
implying that it's all in their head, yet they cannot confirm this?
The study cost nearly $600,000. Its long-awaited results, released Wednesday, conclude that Morgellons exists only in the patients' minds.
They took fibers from 12 people, which were tested at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology. Nothing unusual there, either. Cotton and nylon, mainly — not some kind of organism wriggling out of a patient's body.
Skin lesions were common, but researchers concluded most of them were from scratching.
"We're not mental health experts," one CDC spokeswoman said.
Originally posted by JacKatMtn
reply to post by Aloysius the Gaul
I would just like to see something more definitive... if it is a mental condition, why not pursue it further... and report something more concrete?
I am just a bit more skeptical since the tactic of "it's all in their head" has been used in the past...
Originally posted by MathiasAndrew
Thanks for the update. I too would like to know more about this strange condition. Too many cases are appearing for it to be just a figment of the imagination.
Originally posted by stirling
I can think of one reason that this "disease" is termed a mental abberation.....
The Chemtrail analysis has shown that fibers of some kind are part of what is being sprayed.
What if Morgellons is a disease