I concur! If a medical article doesn’t contain the word “sheeple” I use it for toilet paper. Thank God most Medical Journals aren’t printed on that heavy bond, glossy magazine stock.
Caused by exposure to neutrino radiation.
Note that the word “sheeple” is not being used by a medical article here, but rather by an innocent poster who is basically Just Asking Questions.
I think we’ve found the perfect disease to be treated by homeopathic remedies!
Bullshit. It was asked by a drive-by shit-stirrer with no intention of hanging around for an answer.
What!?! Nooo!
Which is not all that different from Just Asking Questions. I mean, note how the OP’s breathless tone lets us know that he is not a longstanding Morgellon’s believer. He’s just stumbled upon some incredibly important and disturbing information which he’d like to share.
Perhaps, instead of being caused by genetic manipulation, Morgellons is caused by doubling up on Dr. Scholl’s® gel insoles. “I’m not just gellin’, I’m more gellin’!”
As silenus so eloquently put it:Bullshit.
His linked source is a woowoo health site, there’s no proof of the claims and he(?) clearly has done no research in the matter before crying wolf.
OTOH, that could describe any number of posters around here. 
Did you see what Shmendrik’s link pointed to?
Thanks. I thought “just asking questions” was a commonly used phrase here.
Oddly (or not) antipsychotic medications have been used with some success in people with delusional parasitosis (the current medical consensus is that Morgellons = delusional parasitosis). One of the limiting factors is that people convinced they are infested with undetectable organisms understandably think that agreeing to take these drugs means they are acknowledging their problem is a psychiatric disorder.
The CDC (under political prodding) has been looking into “Morgellons”, and is supposed to release the results of its investigation some time in the near future. I suspect that the odds of discovery of an actual new infectious disease with reproducible bizarre manifestations like fibers extruding from the skin are very low. My fearless and possibly wholly inaccurate prediction is that the CDC will ascribe most investigated cases to delusional parasitosis, a small number to unsuspected/misdiagnosed skin manifestations of systemic disease, and an even smaller number to infection, in rare cases by known parasites, concluding that “more study is needed” (hoping against hope that they will not be deluged with complaints from angry Morgies, as many Morgellons’ sufferers call themselves. Interestingly, the CDC’s page on delusional parasitosis which used to be part of its parasitic diseases section, has been taken down).
We had a thread on the Dope a few years back in which a claimed Morgellons’ patient posted, including links to her website containing photos of all the glop she supposedly found on her skin. She was not happy with the skeptics. And beyond doubt, these folks are suffering with a troublesome problem - what’s almost certainly not the solution is to have them take powerful antiparasitic meds or other drugs, which some have been doing.
By the way, naturalnews.com is a swamp of unreliable woo and conspiracy theories, good only for laughs.
Gotta love this from the Wikipedia item that KarlGauss linked to above:
So it’s not a red rash, or a yellow cast to the skin, or a green infection, or even blue varicose veins. Instead, Morgellon’s sufferers break out in … plaid?
Yeah. I was surprised by the whooshes.
I have fibers extruding from my skin. I call them “hair.”
I liked the “toy microscope” part better. I bet the colouring of the fibers was just chromatic aberration.
I have nothing to add, but would just like to say that until I saw the term “woo-woo” on this site a month or two ago, I had never heard of it. But I like it!
I wonder which of these “symptoms” is reported most often…
:eek::eek: Damnit, I have all of those! Am I going to die?