From: "Geo" 

They should have called it tar and feathers..

Geo.

"Robert Comer"  wrote in
message news:4464f5e3$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> You got that right!   Sounds like some kind of fungus.  (if it's real!)
>
> --
> Bob Comer
>
>
> "Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
> news:4464e598$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> > Just stay away from anyone sprouting colored fibers. Joking aside that's
> > one starnge infection
> >
> > "Robert Comer" 
wrote in message
> > news:4464e382{at}w3.nls.net...
> >> And here I'm going to Corpus Christi the on Saturday the 20'th.
(That's
> >> in South Texas)   Bummer.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Bob Comer
> >>
> >>
> >> "Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
> >> news:4464d7d5{at}w3.nls.net...
> >>> Black tarry sweat, strange colored fibers popping out of
your skin and
> >>> it's not a science fiction movie.
> >>>
> >>>
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/metro/stories/MYSA051106.morgellans.KENS.32030
524.html
> >>>
> >>> Doctors puzzled over bizarre infection surfacing in South Texas
> >>>
> >>> Web Posted: 05/12/2006 10:51 AM CDT
> >>>
> >>> 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.
> >>>
> >>> "Sometimes little black specks that come out of the
lesions and
> >>> sometimes little fibers," said Stephanie Bailey,
Morgellons patient.
> >>>
> >>> Patients say that's the worst symptom - strange fibers
that pop out of
> >>> your skin in different colors.
> >>>
> >>> "He'd have attacks and fibers would come out of his
hands and fingers,
> >>> white, black and sometimes red. Very, very painful,"
said Lisa Wilson,
> >>> whose son Travis had Morgellon's disease.
> >>>
> >>> While all of this is going on, it feels like bugs are
crawling under
> >>> your skin. So far more than 100 cases of Morgellons
disease have been
> >>> reported in South Texas.
> >>>
> >>> "It really has the makings of a horror movie in
every way," Savely
said.
> >>>
> >>> While Savely sees this as a legitimate disease, there are
many doctors
> >>> who simply refuse to acknowledge it exists, because of the bizarre
> >>> symptoms patients are diagnosed as delusional.
> >>>
> >>> "Believe me, if I just randomly saw one of these
patients in my
office,
> >>> I would think they were crazy too," Savely said.
"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."
> >>>
> >>> Travis Wilson developed Morgellons just over a year ago.
He called his
> >>> mother in to see a fiber coming out of a lesion.
> >>>
> >>> "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."
> >>>
> >>> The Wilson's spent $14,000 after insurance last year on doctors and
> >>> medicine.
> >>>
> >>> "Most of them are 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," Lisa said.
> >>>
> >>> However, nothing worked, and 23-year-old Travis could no
longer take
it.
> >>>
> >>> "I knew he was going to kill himself, and there was
nothing I could do
> >>> to stop him," Lisa Wilson said.
> >>>
> >>> Just two weeks ago, Travis took his life.
> >>>
> >>> Stephanie Bailey developed the lesions four-and-a-half years ago.
> >>>
> >>> "The lesions come up, and then these fuzzy things
like spores come
out,"
> >>> she said.
> >>>
> >>> She also has the crawling sensation.
> >>>
> >>> "You just want to get it out of you," Bailey said.
> >>>
> >>> She has no idea what caused the disease, and nothing has worked to
clear
> >>> it up.
> >>>
> >>> "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.
> >>>
> >>> Harriett Bishop has battled Morgellons for 12 years.
After a year on
> >>> antibiotics, her hands have nearly cleared up. On the
day, we visited
> >>> her she only had one lesion and she extracted this fiber from it.
> >>>
> >>> "You want to get these things out to relieve the
pain, and that's why
> >>> you pull and then you can see the fibers there, and the
tentacles are
> >>> there, and there are millions of them," Bishop said.
> >>>
> >>> So far, pathologists have failed 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.
> >>>
> >>> Wymore examines the fibers, scabs and other samples from
Morgellon's
> >>> patients to try and find the disease's cause.
> >>>
> >>> "These fibers don't look like common environmental
fibers," he said.
> >>>
> >>> The goal at OSU is to scientifically find out what is
going on. Until
> >>> then, patients and doctors struggle with this mysterious
and bizarre
> >>> infection. Thus far, the only treatment that has showed
some success
is
> >>> an antibiotic.
> >>>
> >>> "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," Savely said
> >>>
> >>> No one knows how Morgellans is contracted, but it does
not appear to
be
> >>> contagious. The states with the highest number of cases are Texas,
> >>> California and Florida.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>
>

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