From: "Robert Comer" 

That works!

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Bob Comer


"Geo"  wrote in message
news:44650cd8$2{at}w3.nls.net...
> 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.320
30524.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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