From: "Robert Comer" 

You got that right!   Sounds like some kind of fungus.  (if it's real!)

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Bob Comer


"Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
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> 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.3
2030524.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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