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Morgellons disease is a controversial and poorly understood condition in which people believe they have unusual thread-like fibers under the skin. Someone with Morgellons disease may feel like ...

Morgellons disease causes black, white, red, or blue fibers to appear under the skin or protrude from it. People may also feel like something is crawling under their skin. The exact cause is unclear, ...

One day in 2003, Mary Leitao plucked a fiber that looked like dandelion fluff from a sore under her 2-year-old son's lip. Three pediatricians, three allergists, two dermatologists, and many ...

It all started in August 2007, on a family holiday in New England. Paul had been watching Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix with his wife and two sons, and he had started to itch. His legs, ...

After years of research, the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta still can’t explain a bizarre illness called Morgellons. The syndrome was discovered in 2002 by biologist Mary Leitao of McMurray, ...

In the middle of an Adelaide day, the bedroom is dark, the curtains closed. Donna Staehr has removed her shirt and stands before me in a maroon singlet. Her skin is flecked with milky dots – scar ...

The sores that cover Cindy Casey’s body are oozy and crusty. “They start out looking something like a mosquito bite that you’ve scratched, and they just sort of erupt and form a raised red lesion,” ...

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Morgellons disease causes black, white, red, or blue fibers to appear under the skin or protrude from it. People may also feel crawling, stinging, or biting sensations in their skin, joint pain, and ...