Morgellons disease: symptoms and therapy, history and etiology

The stories of people suffering from this disease are reminiscent of a science fiction thriller. And it is not surprising that the doctors whom the unfortunate turn to send them to a psychiatrist. Judge for yourself: something (someone) crawls under the skin, then an ulcer forms and some creature emerges from it, similar to a hair or even an insect. It is difficult to remove and may hide under the skin when trying to remove it. How could this be? No and no again. Delusions, hallucinations, dermatitis of a psychogenic nature.

But, unfortunately, this is not nonsense at all: thousands of people from all over the world have already discovered similar symptoms. This means that the disease exists and something needs to be done about it. First, understand what it is.

But everything is in order.

History and etymology[ | ]

The discovery of this supposed disease began when housewife Mary Leitao discovered skin lesions on her child, and she and her husband (an internist) feared it was “something unknown.”

Mary Leitao named the disease after a certain plague disease “morgellons”, the disease of which was mentioned in children of the French region of Languedoc by the English writer Thomas Browne in his work “A Letter to a Friend” published in 1690. The Morgellons Research Foundation, organized by her, successfully obtained a decision from Congress and the US government to study a supposed new infectious disease.

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One day in 2003, Mary Leitao pulled some kind of fiber from a wound under the lip of her two-year-old son Drew. The fiber was weightless, like dandelion, but not the only one. Mary began taking her Drew to doctors. And after 3 pediatricians, 3 allergists, 2 dermatologists and other doctors were unable to diagnose the disease, Mary panicked: she realized that she was faced with a serious problem. And more and more non-healing wounds appeared on Drew’s body, from which some kind of fibers grew - white, black, red or blue. The boy kept saying that there were some boogers crawling under his skin—for example, he pointed at his lips and said “bugs.”

It was not eczema, not an allergy, but something very strange.

In desperation, in March 2004, Mary Leitao began to read medical literature and in an article from the 17th century in French, she found something similar in symptoms - black hairs appearing from the skin. And it was called Morgellons disease. There was clearly something different about baby Drew. But the name stuck.

Mary turned to Internet readers - she hoped to hear from scientists or doctors. Instead, there are thousands of messages from other sufferers. And everyone described wounds and fibers and, in addition, listed a variety of other symptoms: “brain fog,” fatigue, muscle cramps, joint pain, loss of hair and nails, temporary memory lapses, decreased performance, communication difficulties, alienation from family , depression, thoughts of suicide.

In general, the description of this disease is only suitable for science fiction. “A person has the feeling that something is crawling on and under the skin,” says Judy Johnson, “and the multi-colored fibers emerging from the skin seem to be living creatures, and intelligent ones at that.” These are some very thin threads, cobwebs, sometimes something like a granule, seed or bug. Some people see insects flying out of the body and flying into the skin. All this is accompanied by a feeling of tingling, burning and, most importantly, unbearable itching. Physical suffering is especially terrible. “It’s such pain that, if it were possible, I would go for amputation of my legs, just to get rid of all this,” says Judy.

Crowd of versions

One of the “fashionable” versions says that genetically modified agricultural products are to blame for Morgellons disease. After all, scientists have more than once inserted animal genes into plants. For example, a jellyfish or a spider. So some spider bugs, or seeds, or plant fibers appear in a person’s body.

Dr. Raphael Stricker from San Francisco believes that a bacterium characteristic of plants is to blame. This means that people picked it up from the soil or dirt. Let's say, through ticks, which can carry up to 40 different diseases.

Another sensational version is that these are textile fibers that got into wounds from clothing and “took root” in human flesh. But maybe it’s not even fabric, but... plastic?

Daniel Elkan in the journal New Science described one patient who for years discovered “fibers like flexible plastic, some writhing in a zigzag pattern. They are thin, like the silk of spider webs, but strong enough to even break the skin if you pull on them.”

Again just bewilderment

The first scientist who began to seriously study the mysterious disease was Professor Randy Wymore, head of the Morgellons Research Foundation research program. The first results of his work refuted the version of hallucinations. “But these are not textile fibers,” the scientist said, “and not worms, not insects, not fragments of human skin or hair. In general, these threads do not appear from the outside - they materialize inside the body.”

It was not until January 2008 that a grant was awarded for the study of Morgellons disease. In the meantime, strange fibers were sent to laboratories, in particular to the University of Oklahoma, where they were examined under the leadership of Dr. Wymore. And what? It turned out that the fibers from different patients are very similar to each other, but nevertheless they are not similar to any of the fibers known to science!

In another study, Vitaly Tsitovsky, a professor of biochemistry and cell biology at New York University, discovered that the fibers contain a genus of gram-negative bacteria that can genetically transform not only plants but also human cells! According to Professor Tsitovsky, this does not at all mean that Morgellons disease is caused by these bacteria or that it is an infectious disease. We still need to accumulate statistics and work with laboratory animals.

Is it really from the chemtrails?!

Now another, most exotic version has appeared - that Morgellons disease appears from the so-called. “chemtrails” (chemical traces) left in the sky by some mysterious aircraft. In general, chemtrails are one of the mysteries of recent years. People exposed to aerosol sprays suffer from headaches, nausea, fever, skin rashes, asthma, etc. Either someone is deliberately spraying some kind of chemical, or this is a new type of weapon (for example, a weather weapon), or and even the machinations of aliens. But there is also such a nightmare version: tiny nanotechnology sensors are sprayed from the sky, falling into the air, water and food, and with them into the human body.

Recently, three scientists collected samples of these and other fibers (from chemtrails and victims of Morgellons disease) and sent them for examination to four different laboratories. The result was stunning. It turned out that the chemtrails over Texas and, say, over Italy are almost identical in composition. But - and this is especially important - the fibers sprayed from airplanes are, as it were, an “infant” version of those that grow from the body of patients, i.e. this is like their “pre-Morgellons stage.” In victims of Morgellons disease, these fibers are more developed and resemble the finest nanowires.

Shocking statement

And now Jeff Rense, owner of the website www.rense.com, radio host and winner of the prestigious Peabody Journalism Award, comes out with a new definition of Morgellons disease. Most likely, this is an external invasion of human tissue caused by nanotechnology, manifested in the form of self-replicating tubes, wires and colored fibers, with many sensors or “antennas” and objects of other visible configurations, some of which carry what may be genetically altered and/or spliced ​​DNA/RNA. These (nanomodeled) “machines” take root well in an alkaline environment and use the bioelectric energy of the human body, its minerals and other elements for their vital functions. In addition, tiny nanomachines have their own internal “batteries” that can respond to specifically tuned microwaves, electromagnetic fields and other signals. Those. these nanomachines can receive information from the outside and have a kind of group intelligence, or “hive mind”.

But can nanofibers scattered in chemtrails disintegrate and turn into nanoparticles? It's possible, says Dr. Staninger. And nanoparticles can penetrate through the bloodstream into the lungs, brain and any other parts of the body. There they copy the DNA of the microbes or cells they come into contact with, producing more bacteria, more cells, and - through self-assembly - turn into full-sized nanowires, pseudohair and/or pseudoskin.

You can't hide anywhere!

According to Dr. Castle, at least a million Americans, and maybe even twenty million, already carry in their bodies these sensors, antennas, wires, probes, matrices, grids, gratings, etc. - all in nanoscale parameters. Morgellons disease is spreading at a rate of approximately 1,000 victims per day. These rates will increase every year.

By spraying from above, biological nanosensors “thinner than a human hair” can be secretly implanted into people. And what can be done with the “tagged” ones is clear to anyone. Not only to read thoughts, intentions, emotions, but also to conduct remote psychotronic processing of the population. Microscopic sensors can penetrate anywhere, this is called “smart dust”, and it is programmed chemically - for example, to penetrate only into a specific substance, to self-replicate, to attach to clothing, etc. Other sensors dropped from above are capable of “sniffing out” a specific molecule in the air or “licking” it on a surface—they are equipped with “nanonoses” or “nanotongues,” as it were. Their readings can be scanned using rays (ultraviolet, x-ray and others) and then processed. Now experts are already developing sensors that track a specific person by his individual smell. In other words, the emphasis is shifting to nanosensors capable of hearing, smelling and touching.

What does the coming day have in store for us?

Unmanned aerial vehicles for collecting data from “ground-based sensors” (including those located in the human body) can be very diverse - from space platforms and spy satellites to tiny devices in the form of, for example, a dragonfly or a fly. And there are already technologies capable of shielding and covering them in such a way that no radar or satellite can see them. A more economical option is that with the help of space mirrors, sensor data can be reflected and sent to a tracking station. In a word, the wildest ideas of science fiction writers are already becoming reality. Some have been developed and implemented, while others the military plans to implement before 2025. But Morgellons disease, or more precisely, a nanotechnological epidemic spread through chemtrails, is an undoubted nightmare reality of our days. Author: Mark Sokolov

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Etiology and epidemiology[ | ]

The etiology of the disease is unknown. In the literature, various authors attribute the disease to parasitic (acariasis, entomosis or helminthiasis), infectious (bacteriosis, possibly through transmissible infection), toxic or organic-neurotic origin. The version of psychogenic parasitosis is also popular. It is also the most probable, since any psychosis, whipped up by the tabloid media, often finds its “victims” among the mentally ill or even simply mentally unstable individuals. Fantastic opinions are also expressed about nanomachines, the influence of GMOs, etc.

The disease appeared in 2001 in the USA. To date, more than 12 thousand Americans and residents of other countries have independently made a similar supposed diagnosis.

Some scientists believe that Morgellons is a symptom of long-known diseases such as allergic dermatitis, contact dermatitis, and scabies.

Causes of the disease

Morgellons disease has no etiology as such. It has been precisely established that the development of the pathological process is provoked by a fungus of unknown origin, which is in the stage of incomplete mutation. The pathogen is resistant to external factors:

• survives at temperatures of -196 degrees;
• does not respond to known medications;
• has a bioelectric nature and can even produce light;
• upon penetration into the body for a long time does not provoke an inflammatory reaction;
• sensitive to the effects of electromagnetic fields.

It is assumed that the fungus is in the air, after which it enters the human body and there it begins to mutate and grow. The disease is contagious - through physical contact, household objects, and so on.

Morgellons threads under a microscope.

Studies have shown that the formation of an unknown fungus may be due to the development of the industry of genetically modified products, transgenes of fats and plants. However, at the moment this is only a guess - there is no exact information.

People with weakened immune systems are more prone to developing the disease.

Clinical picture[ | ]

Patients experience muscle cramps, ulcers appear on the skin, burning and itching occur. Pain in joints and muscles.

Patients feel as if a worm or insect is crawling or crawling into them, which doctors explain as hallucinations. Sometimes patients even show “parasites” or “fibers” extracted from under the skin, which turn out to be hairs or exfoliated epidermis. Patients claim that the fibers are colored, reminiscent of textiles, and their clots are clearly visible through the mucous membranes.

Consequence of borreliosis

Another theory is also popular. Its supporters are confident that the development of a strange pathology can be triggered by Lyme disease, acute immunodeficiency, or environmental toxicity. By the way, many celebrities have been diagnosed with Morgellons disease. Alec Baldwin, Billy Koch, Avril Lavigne are among them, but in fact these people successfully overcame the common tick-borne borreliosis.

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Treatment[ | ]

Treatment and prognosis are unknown.

Since doctors and scientists do not yet know for sure whether this condition is an independent disease, and if it is, what causes the disease, various empirical treatment methods are used (for example, antibiotics, anthelmintics, psychotropic drugs for the treatment of mental disorders, etc.) .

Treatment of the disease

Treatment is only symptomatic - specific drugs whose action would be aimed at eliminating the mutant fungus do not yet exist.

To alleviate the patient’s condition and eliminate symptoms for a while, the doctor may prescribe the following:

• sedatives;
• painkillers;
• immunomodulators;
• detoxification;
• antifungal;
• antibiotics;
• antiseptic for local use;
• anti-inflammatory.

The medications chosen are the same as for Lyme disease, since the clinical picture is slightly similar. With the help of medications, it is possible to achieve at least a short, but still remission stage.

An ointment is prescribed that relieves inflammation and accelerates the healing process of the skin in the affected area. Folk remedies are inappropriate because a priori they cannot provide the desired therapeutic effect.

Through complex therapeutic measures, it is possible to eliminate the symptoms of the disease for some time, but so far medicine does not have methods for completely eliminating the pathological process.

Unfortunately, the prognosis for the disease is unfavorable. Many patients with this diagnosis become disabled because they cannot lead a normal life. There is no specific prevention for Morgellons disease.

Notes[ | ]

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4. Pearson, Michele L.; et al. (January 2012). "Clinical, Epidemiologic, Histopathologic and Molecular Features of an Unexplained Dermopathy". PLoS One 7 (1)
5. Aleccia, JoNel. “Mystery skin disease Morgellons has no clear cause, CDC study says” inaccessible
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