New study sheds light on Morgellons as an infectious disease
Press release from Charles E. Holman Morgellons Disease Foundation, Oct. 18, 2016:
Morgellons disease is a poorly understood condition characterized by spontaneously occurring, slowly healing skin lesions containing multicolored filaments and accompanied by symptoms such as fatigue, joint and muscle pain and neurological problems, according to a recent report published in the prestigious ‘International Journal of General Medicine.’
The review paper titled ” Morgellons Disease: A Filamentous Borrelial Dermatitis” was written by Calgary microbiologist Marianne Middelveen and San Francisco internist, Dr.Raphael Stricker of the International Lyme and Associated Disease Society (ILADS). The skin condition is often linked to Lyme disease, a tickborne illness that has reached epidemic proportions throughout the USA.
“This paper provides a unifying view of Morgellons disease,” says Cindy Casey Holman, director of the Charles E. Holman Morgellons Disease Foundation(CEHMDF) of Austin, TX. “It includes some new and exciting twists for what we already know and it provides evidence confirming the association between Morgellons disease and Lyme disease.”
Previous research funded by the CEHMDF has shed light on the mysterious illness. Rather than textiles, worms or parasites, the characteristic colorful filaments found in Morgellons skin lesions are composed of collagen and keratin produced by skin cells. The filaments can display some hair-like features and the blue coloration is caused by melanin pigmentation. The red coloration remains a mystery at present.
“There are no known blue textile fibers colored by melanin,” explains Middelveen “thus Morgellons fibers are of biological origin”.
A number of peer reviewed published studies have shown that Morgellons skin lesions are associated with Lyme disease. The causative agent of Lyme disease, Borrelia burgdorferi, and other closely related bacteria have been detected in Morgellons skin lesions. “This finding has been reproduced at four independent laboratories,” says Dr. Éva Sapi of the University of New Haven. “Thus the association between infection and Morgellons disease is reproducible if the correct detection methods are used.”
Mainstream medicine has been slow to acknowledge advances made in the understanding of Morgellons disease. “Many doctors still think Morgellons disease is caused by mental illness,” explains Casey-Holman. “We hope this new article will help doctors understand this mysterious illness so that patients can improve with treatment for the underlying infection.”
“Collectively, Morgellons disease research clearly shows a bacterial infective process,” states Dr. Randy Wymore of Oklahoma State University. “Despite some obsolete opinions,” Wymore continues, “there is zero scientific evidence that Morgellons disease is a psychogenic illness.”
To learn more about Morgellons Disease go to: http://www.MorgellonsDisease.org
I apologize to MD patients on behalf of the medical community, because they will never receive the apology they deserve from the medical community nor the CDC who recommends only psychiatric care for MD patients as I detail in my recent book Incurable Me.
This is the negation of an illness even more than Lyme disease itself.
I was told I need to see a psychologists. I told my MD SHE was crazy I am not nuts .I brought her in a sample of the fibers that look like bugs coming from my skin.
The culprit and or cause of your skin situation from what you have just posted a week earlier sounds like a classic case of BT/GM Cotton. Cotton bath towels I would suspect. AMMONIA and WATER 50/50 must be used to kills this pathogen in all areas inc. soaking your towels in it overnight. BLEACH does not work. It must be ammonia. If you have any questions contact me. I had this issue for months years back. I have helped dozens of others for free :).
Don’t expect any help from establishment medicine. Their only interest is making money off of sick people, no matter how they do it.
I’ve had it for elevin years a have seen “it” in “it’s” several forms do some incredable sanity questioning things! It is a hive “organism” that completely colonizes it’s host till eventual exhaustion with maddening activity!
I believe it prefers mammels and can mutate to infest different species such as dogs , cats and Human and is probably the root cause of “White Nose disease” in Bats also! I have similar false hair follicle infesting mine and all over places of it’s prefered warmth and humidity! A micro nightmare, why hasn’t Stephen King wrote some short story about this combination Science fiction Horror ?
Must be ” Alien”! Haha.. I know it’s Non-fiction , though!
i may have Morgellons. This started about five years ago. Is there anything that will get rid of this?? My skin is beginning to look like scales with paths under my skin. Im a white 62 year old female. This, whatever it is has gotten in my eyes, nose, ears, well, everywhere. They sting! I believe they are in my brain.
About at the end of my rope.
If you haven’t already, recommend you read the following book: https://www.lymedisease.org/touched-lyme-threading-path-morgellons-disease/
My sister is like this as well
I have the same symptoms. I would rather have cancer. My car is infested. Bites on the tops of my feet and ankles. Others in the car with me feel nothing.