This is like from a sci-fi movie...
A new disease that 'grows' fibre-like strands from the skin.
After being analysed they were found to be msde from mainly celulose, a chemical the human body cannot break down or manufacture.
Sample taken from a patient would not burn until 1000 degrees celsius!
The fibre's outer casing has been shown to be made up of high density ployethylene fibre (HDPF), used in the manufacture of fibre optics and as a compound to encapsulate viral protein envelopes in nanotech!
If true, this disease could come from any number of places, genetically modified cotton, chemtrails, gm food, etc...
I tend to read everything with a fair degree of scepticism, but would not be at all surprised that this early research is proved correct.
We humans are an inquisitive race, to which a side effect will always be the danger of discovering something we cannot control and willingly or unwillingly releasing it onto the world.

"A communicable (nanotechnology triggered?) invasion of human tissues in the form of self-assembling, self-replicating visible tubes, colored fibers, wires, arrays with what seem to be sensors or 'antennae', and other visible configurations, some carrying what may be genetically-altered and spliced DNA/RNA. These (nano-triggered) 'machines' thrive in alkaline ph conditions and use the body's bio-electric energy, its minerals and other unidentified elements for power." (quote from here )
http://www.dldewey.com/morgel.htm
http://www.rense.com/morgphase/phase2_1.htm

I am still skeptical about Morgellon's but continue to read about the evidence as it comes in.

I lean to thinking this is mostly delusional parasitosis - but I am always cautious about such conclusions. After all, many people with MS go take years to convince their neurologists that they are not delusional. And we can learn a lot from the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome scandal.

Doctors, I find, are amazingly non-scientific and anti-rational.

Therefore - despite my initial impressions - I am slow dismiss Morgellon's, and keep my eyes open. I don't think we've seen enough evidence that anyone needs to have a strong opinion.

I will say that the self-replicating nanotechnology theory is much too far fetched for me. I'd need a little evidence before i worried about flesh-destroying micromachine doomsday devices.

cartoonprofessor
Sample taken from a patient would not burn until 1000 degrees celsius!

So would someone with this disease be fire-resistant?

Vids are not generally a good thing to post in debate/discussion posts without some sort of introductory text because a lot of people still have crappy internet connections and can't easily view them so you should give them a reason to see if it's worth while or not to try and do so ;)

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I've heard for years about theories than nanotech particles could be very bad for the environment and bad for health. But everything I've heard so far about this problem sounds like groupthinking gone a little wrong: Is it real or are people creating a fantasy problem based no something ordinary and their own wishful thinking?

I first came across this thing when looking at some interesting images of another person with those horny growths all over their skin (the so called "tree" and Rock" people), and seeing that rabbits often get something similar around their heads. Some tool suggested it might be Morgellon's Disease... NO. No it was not. Not in any way, shape or form.

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I just don't know if Morgellon's Disease is real or not yet. Stacey makes a good point about MS and CFT.

From the research I've seen, researchers have been unable to identify a pathogen or other source of infection. It is a rare condition with no set diagnostic criteria. 90% of claimants have been found to have other better known conditions or to be suffering from delusions.
That said, Morgellon's disease is a real and very serious condition. The CDC does not convene investigative task forces for the hell of it for one thing.
Also the symptoms are not exactly as Cartoon professor described them. The filaments DO burn and are in fact very sensitive to heat.