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Friday, 15 December 2006 |
Psychiatric News
By Joan Arehart-Treichel
 | | This Morgellons Research Foundation photograph shows a skin lesion on the lip of a 3-year-old boy believed to have morgellons disease. Individuals with the illness often report nonhealing skin lesions and fibers associated with the lesions. Courtesy: www.morgellons.org |
Is morgellons disease due to Lyme disease, a delusional parasitosis, a skin problem, or something else? The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention plans to search for an answer.
Amysterious skin illness whose victims complain of insects invading their skin; crawling, stinging, and biting sensations; and fibers protruding from nonhealing skin lesions is making its way across the United States as well as into other countries. "I would be in bed, and it felt like an army of ants crawling over my body," one sufferer said.
The illness first came to public attention in 2002, when a woman whose son had the condition named it "morgellons" (after a disease with similar symptoms mentioned in a 16th-century medical text) and created a foundation devoted to finding its cause and cure. Since then, more than 5,000 households have registered at the foundation's Web site. The malady has also received a lot of media coverage, such as from the ABC show "Good Morning America" to the Dallas Observer, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, and New York Times.
Moreover, virtually "every dermatologist in the country" has had contact with morgellons patients, Caroline Koblenzer, M.D., a clinical professor of dermatology at the University of Pennsylvania, told Psychiatric News. For example, she has treated dozens of patients with the condition.
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Saturday, 16 June 2007 |
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By Sandy Kleffman At first, they looked like tick bites. Then they grew itchy and painful and became open, weeping wounds.
The lesions spread across much of Tina Solovieff's body - her back, arms, legs and feet.
What happened next stunned and horrified her.
The 51-year-old El Cerrito, Calif., resident noticed strange, stringlike fibers emerging from the lesions - unlike anything she had seen, despite working for years as an intensive care nurse.
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