Morgellons Disease

I was watching a BitChute video on biological warfare and one of the comments caught my attention:

Already happening in the UK, they are spraying Morgellons on us from planes. I've had them for a while. The way to get rid of them is bathe in baking soda and boron and drink colloidal silver. Most people have them but they just don't know it. They affect your immune system and keep you in fear. My body rejected them and they started jumping out of my face. I guess Im one of the lucky ones for working this shit out and removing them. 

I was immediately curious as to what morgellons were as I'd never heard the term before. A conservative, mainstream site WebMD had this to say:

Morgellons is a controversial and poorly understood condition in which unusual thread-like fibers appear under the skin. The patient may feel like something is crawling, biting, or stinging all over. Some medical experts say Morgellons is a physical illness. Others suggest it is a type of psychosis called "delusional parasitosis," in which a person thinks parasites have infected their skin. Your doctor may call it an "unexplained dermopathy," which means a skin condition that occurs without a known reason. Other medical professionals have dubbed the condition "fiber disease."

Morgellons Disease Symptoms

Unpleasant skin sensations are the main complaint. People with Morgellons may also complain of:

• Feeling like bugs are crawling all over the skin
• Burning or stinging sensations under the skin
• Intense itching
• Skin sores that appear suddenly and heal slowly
• Sores that leave very red (hyperpigmented) scars
• Some patients report thread-like fibers stuck in the skin.

People with Morgellons sometimes complain of other symptoms, which may include:

• Hard time paying attention and concentrating
• Extreme fatigue
• Hair loss
• Joint and muscle pain
• Nervous system problems
• Tooth loss
• Sleep problems
• Short-term memory loss

Morgellons Disease Risk Factors

In the past, few doctors had heard of Morgellons. But in response to scattered reports, the CDC worked together with several other health care agencies to investigate this condition. Most reports came from California, Texas, and Florida, although patients have been seen in all 50 states. The CDC study found that Morgellons is most likely to affect middle-aged white women. Many of the patients in the CDC study showed signs of being obsessively concerned about health problems in general. This is called somatic concerns. About half of the people in the study had other health problems, including depression and drug abuse.

Controversial Diagnosis

The question of whether Morgellons is a disease or a delusion has prompted debate and new research in recent years. The CDC states that the condition is not caused by an infection or anything in the environment. The CDC study also included a lab analysis of skin fibers in Morgellons patients. The analysis showed that these fibers were mostly cotton, such as typically found in clothing or bandages.

Well, we certainly can't trust the CDC, sometimes dubbed the Center for Disease Creation to get to the bottom of this as they may well have a nefarious hand in its creation and dissemination. We need to look elsewhere to find out what might be going on. However, the WebMD article leaves with the clear impression that the condition is probably imaginary, with most sufferers being depressed, drug-dependent or suffering from psychosis. Geez, the fibers are even made of cotton that has been obviously been shed by clothing or bandages. Nothing to see here, let's move on. The tone of the article really goads me into further investigation. 

A very detailed study was published in February of 2018 titled History of Morgellons disease: from delusion to definition in Clinical, Cosmetic and Investigational Dermatology. In this study, the cotton fiber myth is exposed:

Histological studies have shown that filaments in Morgellons Disease (MD) tissue are not textile fibers, but are biofilaments produced by human epithelial cells and stemming from deeper epidermal layers, upper dermal layers, and the root sheath of hair follicles. MD cutaneous filaments are predominantly composed of keratin and collagen, as determined by histological studies, and appear to be produced by activated keratinocytes and fibroblasts. The base of filament attachment to epithelial cells demonstrates nucleation that is continuous with that of surrounding epithelial cells, indicating that the filaments are of human cellular origin.

This is a very detailed and comprehensive study and quotes 124 references. Here are its conclusions:

The history of MD has taught us that scientific evidence must be carefully considered before a disease is written off as a purely psychiatric disorder. Delusional disorder is a diagnosis of exclusion that requires clinical judgment, and all underlying causes for delusional symptoms need to be ruled out before jumping to erroneous conclusions. Medical practitioners continue to consider MD a delusional disorder, although studies have shown that MD is strongly associated with spirochetal infection. According to the best-available scientific evidence, MD should be considered a dermopathy associated with tick-borne disease. Further study of the genetics, pathogenesis, and treatment of MD is warranted. 

According to this MedicineNet, "a spirochete is a microscopic bacterial organism in the Spirochaeta family that has a worm-like, spiral-shaped form and wiggles vigorously when viewed under a microscope. Treponema pallidum, the cause of syphilis, is a particularly well-known spirochete." So the rigorous scientific study suggests that the disease is real enough and may be caused by a tick-borne sphirochete. Let's now review a personal account from a sufferer.

On PDFDrive we find Nancy's Morgellons Blog (uploaded in 2011) which begins with her saying:

This little book is offered for one purpose only: to present my personal overview from experience with Morgellons Disease and to provide one point of reference for the thousands of other sufferers who are trying to endure this disease.  

Nancy goes on to write:

It needs to be stressed that there is a connection between Morgellons and Lyme Disease. Over 90% of Morgellons sufferers are tested and found to have Lyme Disease. My treating physician is an expert on Lyme and feels that the Lyme precedes Morgellons. The Lyme attacks and diminishes the Immune System/white blood cells and then the parasites are not held in abeyance inside and begin to attack the rest of the body.

Nancy's little e-book is 40 pages in length and is mostly full of treatment options that she has personally applied to her condition. This would be invaluable of course to anyone suffering from the disease. Her experience is nightmarish and a reminder of the damage that Lyme Disease can cause to the immune system. The weakened immune system seems to set the stage for the onset of Morgellons Disease in some people. It is a disease that is becoming more common and needs to be identified as early as possible. At least I now know a little more about it.