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CALIFORNIA, always on the ‘cutting’ edge. Gee, won’t Barbra and Susan, look great with this.
This all started with this sweetheart. Notice the gendarmes, NOT wearing protective garb….the perfect storm, folks.
“Blue, red, yellow, pink, white coming out of the skin, not landing on it,” Riaubia said. -
It’s a celebration of diversity!Posted by Islam/cancer-Chuck Norris/answer on 2006 05 20 at 12:14 AM • permalinkSeems definitely meth-related. Maybe more to the point, isn’t this about the time for the May TV-ratings sweeps?
Posted by stuartfullerton on 2006 05 20 at 12:34 AM • permalinkSounds like Guinea Worm, but with a funky California twist.
Posted by Daniel San on 2006 05 20 at 12:34 AM • permalinkHmmm.
Jesus that stuff is creepy.
Even creepier than that ad Kos did.
Posted by memomachine on 2006 05 20 at 01:22 AM • permalinkPaco — er… research skills, right, hadda look it up, of course…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 05 20 at 02:21 AM • permalinkWikipedia suggests this is a hoax. It certainly has the hallmarks of one, origins in California being a major clue:
The term Morgellons is not in accepted use by the medical community and the syndrome is widely held by the medical community to be a presentation of delusional parasitosis
There are several delusional syndromes: chronic fatigue, aspartame psychosis, chlorosis, MCS, etc. This is just one more.
Posted by walterplinge on 2006 05 20 at 04:09 AM • permalinkInteresting tidbit from the Morgellons homepage (yes, there is ont of those).
The majority of individuals reporting symptoms of Morgellons Disease reside in California, Texas, and Florida.
California cluster areasDistinct geographic “cluster” areas of this disease have been noted near Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Jose and San Diego in California - as well as near Houston, Dallas, Austin, and Round Rock in Texas.
Note: Although California represents 12% of the US population, 26% of all who have registered with the Morgellons Research Foundation reside in California.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2006 05 20 at 04:20 AM • permalinkShe recently came down with it and dropped about 40 pounds in a matter of months.
Effective new Hollywood diet!
Most sufferers have lesions on their skin that ooze multi-colored fibers. “Blue, red, yellow, pink, white coming out of the skin, not landing on it,”
She could spin all those multicoloured fibres into fabric and make a nice dress to wear down the red carpet.
Posted by James Waterton on 2006 05 20 at 04:25 AM • permalinkThe disease does seem to cause a brain fog or lack of clarity.
A disease of the left! Blue, red, yellow, pink, white ideas coming out of their skins.
Or it might be the Topeka Beagle-Puppy disease :
Better buy perfect Topeka beagle puppies
Topeka beagle puppies sputter fiber beaks
Effeter fiber beaks abetted feeble puppies
Worst Topeka beagle puppies feature viper-pique.so common on the left.
Lesions that erupt in fibres?
The Flying Spaghetti Monster knows he’s not supposed to consort with the lower life-forms.Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2006 05 20 at 05:12 AM • permalinkThe official morgellon site has thumbnails of lesions. You can click on them for larger versions. I have, and not once did I see the so-called lesion put in context. No sign of location, specific or general. No sign the so-called fibers actually grew out of body tissues. Hell, near as I could tell, the lesions were nothing more than self-inflicted sores and ulcerating wounds with thread, yarn, and plastic strands shoved in them.
Then you have the virulent ranting on the front page, in which the author accusses the medical business of engaging in outright persecution of the poor, saintly morellon sufferer.
I’m thinking fraud here. At best some delusional character who could use a long hospitalization. If nothing else it’s a fine example of why the MSM collectively needs to be placed under a strict conservatorship.
Posted by mythusmage on 2006 05 20 at 06:18 AM • permalinkMood disorders, such as depression and Bipolar Disorder, are extremely common in this group of patients, affecting well over half of all individuals reporting symptoms of Morgellons Disease. Parents of children with Morgellons disease report that the majority of these children have ADHD, ODD, mood disorders, or autism. It is estimated that 65% of these children have some form of psychiatric illness, and 10% have an autism spectrum disorder.
The bugs and skin thing is a common manifestation of psychosis, especially drug induced (had a patient once who did a reverse twist on this phenomenon by claiming that cigarette ashes were jumping out of her ashtrays and burrowing into her skin). A disease of the mind is still a disease and I feel sorry for these people, but unless they’ve all been traveling in equatorial Africa or somewhere, a disease of the mind is what this most assuredly is. But hey, the syndrome cluster areas are also areas in which illegal aliens cluster. Maybe we can blame it on them.
Note: Although California represents 12% of the US population, 26% of all who have registered with the Morgellons Research Foundation reside in California.
‘Nuff said.
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2006 05 20 at 10:05 AM • permalinkThis sounds like a hoax to me. The fibers seem to be the unique presenting symptom, yet there are no reports of their characterization. In all this time has no pathologist or clinical chemist thought to put one of these things under a microscope? What is their structure, and how are they formed? It is hard to imagine an infection process forming fibers.
Distinct geographic “cluster” areas of this disease have been noted near Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Jose and San Diego in California - as well as near Houston, Dallas, Austin, and Round Rock in Texas.
Mood disorders, such as depression and Bipolar Disorder, are extremely common in this group of patients, affecting well over half of all individuals reporting symptoms of Morgellons Disease.
It’s obviously a physical manifestation of Bush Derangement Syndrome.
Posted by Some0Seppo on 2006 05 20 at 11:06 AM • permalinkI saw Morgellons and immediately thought of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. I wish you’d stop bringing up these bizarre associations.
Posted by RebeccaHInteresting association, Rebecca. I thought it sounded like something Stephen King would come up with. You know, The Morgellons, now at your local bookstore. Of course the people covered with fiber-filled lesions would be in a God-forsaken town in rural Maine, not California.
2Dogs,
I was thinking more along the lines of acrylic and polyester.
Posted by mythusmage on 2006 05 21 at 12:28 AM • permalinkI wonder if this is like those Sudanese men who felt their penises vanishing after shaking hands with “a foriegner”.
Posted by Michael Lonie on 2006 05 22 at 12:03 AM • permalink
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