Morgellons Disease: Is It Real?

Deborah Knapp KENS 5 Eyewitness News If diseases like AIDS and bird flu scare you, wait until you hear what's next. Doctors are trying to find out what is causing a bizarre and mysterious infection that's surfaced in South Texas. Morgellons disease is not yet known to kill, but if you were to get it, you might wish you were dead, as the symptoms are horrible. "These people will have like beads of sweat but it's black, black and tarry," said Ginger Savely, a nurse practioner in Austin who treats a majority of these patients. Patients get lesions that never heal. For more information please click on link below. Thanks to www.drudgereport.com for this report.http://www.mysanantonio.com/global-includes/printstory.jsp?path=/news/metro/stories/MYSA051106.morgellans.KENS.32030524.html Morgellons Morgellons or Morgellons disease is a polysymptomatic syndrome characterized by the patient's presentation of intense itching, skin lesions and the presence of unusual structures, fibers or objects in or on the skin. These symptoms are occasionally accompanied by the belief in infestation by some unknown arthropod or parasite. The term Morgellons is not in accepted use by the medical community. There is no agreed-upon physical cause or etiology. For more information on Morgellons please click on links below: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgellons_Disease http://www.morgellons.org/ Morgellons Disease: Is It Real? http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/weblog/comments/2459/