Morgellons Research Foundation: An Oasis of Understanding
A person in Florence, Texas was heading out to Las Vegas for a road trip when his fingers started tingling. He saw spiny, stringy things coming out of his fingers. He thought that he had brushed up against a cactus or other spiny object that had embedded in his hand. He tried to pull the objects from his finger with a set of tweezers and blinding pain shoot up his with intensity he had never felt before. He pulled another and he had a shooting pain in his chest. Still another delivered pain to the back of his neck. Then something weird happened, he felt like bugs were crawling under his skin and moving between his joints.
This type of X-File occurrence started happening to thousands of people across California, Texas, and Florida. Coined Morgellons disease, these people were suffering from a serious predicament that made them think they were going insane. Mary Leitao was so surprised at the number of incidents that she started a organization that started documenting the cases. The organization is called the Morgellons Research Foundation and has been in operation since 2002. The organization is an oasis for sufferers who surf the web endlessly wading through speculation, theory, and conspiracy. Because the medical community has done little to recognize the condition, the Morgellons Research Foundation is getting the message out to the world that they believe the disease is real and it is time to help the thousands of people who have Morgellons.
It is beginning to become a problem for all people who show these symptoms because doctors and dermatologists are becoming afraid to treat or diagnose these people. One dermatologist in California says he has seen at least 75 patients with these kind of symptoms in the past thirty five years. He still contends that the disease is in the head and is psychological in nature. He says the patients suffer from delusional parasitosis and the parasite only exists in the imagination of the patient. Morgellon symptom suffers are becoming disgruntled with the medical community because they are not being taken seriously. A few patients have even filed suits and threatened physical violence when told that the bugs under the skin were in their head and not in their body.
People from the Morgellons Research Foundation have logged claims from the Morgellon patients that people with breast cancer and AIDS have millions of dollars just handed to them for research for a cure. They have even started a letter writing campaign to the federal government demanding that the disease be recognized and the federal governments intervene. The Center for Disease Control has started a preliminary investigation not to find the cure, but to see if the disease actually exits. The medical community is in disarray about the subject. If you have or know someone that has Morgellon Disease symptoms, you need to contact both the Morgellon Research Foundation and the Center for Disease Control. One of the either of them will get you information on the latest research.