Morgellon Disease Myths and Misconceptions
Morgellon Disease has caused so much controversy with sufferers, the medical community, and the media, that many untruths and myths have arisen. You can use Morgellon Disease as a search word and thousands of websites will pop-up claiming a new cure or a new explanation of this bizarre ailment. As with anything that is beyond the ordinary and picked up the media, Morgellon Disease researchers need to separate truth from fact. They also have to pick out the sites that are cashing in on this surreal disease and discredit them. Morgellon Disease or at least the symptoms associated with the phenomenon, is a serious infliction that has destroyed thousands of life.
There are thousands of people who suffer from Morgellon Disease. Right now this can be considered a false claim because though thousands of people have filled out surveys for the Morgellon Foundation, the symptoms are similar but very different for different individuals. Since the surveys are taken randomly and the only people that are responding to them is people who believe they have the diseases even thought the symptoms can be aligned to another disease or ailment. Since Morgellons has not even been identified as a disease, the myth should be discounted until the medical professionals decide the facts before the public does.
The second myth is that the disease must be real because to Center for Disease Control is investigating it. Wrong! They are not investigating the disease; they are investigating whether the disease is real or not. Many newspapers and television reports mislead people to thinking that this health agency has committed itself to finding if this disease is becoming an epidemic, when actually they just want to verify its existence.